Premature Optimization

I’ve been spending allot of time sorting my gallery and uploading my photos to Flickr. I’ve even bought a Pro Account (!!). But manually uploading pictures to Flickr is not that easy. Flickr does offer some desktop applications that use Flickr’s web serives to upload pictures - but not for Linux (what did you expect?)

Anyway, this is where I came access F-Spot: It’s a very nice image database administration software for GNOME. You can tag your photos and sort them in all kinds of ways. It also does some basic image manipulation (it’s not GIMP - but it does most things you need to do basic touch-ups). The best part: You can automatically export your photos to Flickr. Very slick and easy to use.

I’ve also came accross some other apps, which I didn’t try - I know there are things especially for Flickr uploads, for example Glimmr. I’ve also seen Gnickr! which doesn’t seem to be mature enough, but looks like a very nice concept: It uses gnome-vfs (I guess.. correct me if I’m wrong) to create a virtual Flickr file system - so you can upload / view your pictures through Nautilus.. Cool!

I finally did it, and started my own blog.

I’ve been planning this for some time now, but never had the time until now. Actually, even now I don’t have the time - I just got used to sleeping less

I plan to write from time to time about things that go on in my life - a large part of this blog will probably be the technical-php-and-open-source kind of blog - but I hope to do quite allot of more personal thoughts and experiences kind of blogging, assuming I will be brave enough and fluent enough.

Oh, and this blog is not meant to be a monolog - so if you have your own thoughts about something I write, please comment!

Cheers!