Didn’t you have some stuff on Flickr way early on? ISTR that I heard of Flickr from viewing some stuff you’d put up there. I began using it and got the pro account (it’s cheap compared to what you get) and now I don’t even email photos to family anymore; I upload them in a slide show and email them the link. I agree it’s easy to use and I am intrigued by your digicam program, because I have to go back to Flickr and rename and describe everything. All the tags are there of course from the upload, but I can also go back and add specific tags to certain photos.
WHen I do Google or Yahoo image searches on a topic, frequently most of the hits are off individuals’ Flickr pages. I also use the world map to check out what places look like from user photos. All in all, a real deal. I thought I had you to thank for my finding it; maybe not, but I agree with your comments.
So basically you are saying that much like your experience with women, you are inept to creating a website that is.. well. basically sucks.
I guess that should be apparent considering the fact that you claim you have a website, but you can't code even a shitty one yourself, so you have to a piece of shit script like Wordpress to do it for you. What next? Use another script to manage your crappy pictures? Sure looks like it. At least I have to give you credit for warning people that your site is "100% fabricated".
> So basically you are saying that much like your experience with women, > you are inept to creating a website that is.. well. basically sucks.
Yup, Charles has problems in both areas. First, he couldn't create the <html> tag w/o screwing up. Second, his wife left him and he wants to make sure that all other people he works w/ never feels the love of a woman. It's quite infectious, considering how his fellow East Coast trolls get together to "socialise"... Oh well, he can disperse love to his several cats. Who am I to judge?
> I agree it’s easy to use and I am > intrigued by your digicam program, because I have to go back to Flickr > and rename and describe everything. All the tags are there of course > from the upload, but I can also go back and add specific tags to > certain photos.
Personally, my major objection to Flickr is that it forces me to generate metadata for my pictures and does not make it easy for me to keep an offline record of my own work (this is really my general objection to Web 2.0 features like blogs etc.). If there were an easy mechanism to generate the metadata while keeping a local copy which could be worked with by other programs, this objection would vanish.
Oh, and incidentally, CalBoggio: latest rankings give wwtl.info a ranking of 2 899 390 vs my network ranking of 1 776 851. Yr all into the numbers and that, they equate to success to you, so what d'ya think of that?
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:19:03 -0700 (PDT), abda53 wrote: >So basically you are saying that much like your experience with women, >you are inept to creating a website that is.. well. basically sucks.
>I guess that should be apparent considering the fact that you claim >you have a website, but you can't code even a shitty one yourself, so >you have to a piece of shit script like Wordpress to do it for you. >What next? Use another script to manage your crappy pictures? Sure >looks like it. At least I have to give you credit for warning people >that your site is "100% fabricated".
Now for a serious comment.
Why would anyone want to waste time typing stuff like <a href="blahbahblah"> or <b> or <img src="some picture somewhere"> when that can be automated?
I can hand code but quite frankly, I find it a waste of time and useful only for tweaking a site automatically generated by something like GoLive or Dreamweaver. Why do all the grunt work when software can do it for you?
What if you had to hand-place all the formatting codes that used to show up in the old "reveal codes" command of an ancient version of Word Perfect instead of using keyboard shortcuts?
Most of us care about the finished result and don't care how much, or how little, effort goes into it. Personally I prefer not to hand-code because I find it a waste of time and keystrokes. And it still irks me that there is not a good WYSIWYG HTML editor out there comparable to Quark XPress or InDesign (or the old PageMaker) for the desktop publishing world. There is a market for such software.
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I have to agree with Carl on this one. It's unfathomable that any female - after actually getting to know Chuck Slater - would stick with him for a month, let alone (allegedly) multiple years! I just don't see it happening. I mean, what does he have to offer? Using tired Internet meme's day in and day out? Making lengthy and frequent speeches about how he's soooooophisticated enough to hold beliefs from both major political parties? Accusing people of pedophilia without proof? Doesn't sound like a good catch to me.
On the other hand, if you look at his friends in a certain chat room, you get a good idea of the, erm, "quality" of woman Chuck's alleged wife is. She probably just didn't have too many choices besides Chuck. Loneliness and desparation can do horrible things to one's life.
It's really six of one, half a dozen of the other. You take yr chances. I'm not inclined to dump my website by any means as it stands just now, simply because if flickr evaporates tomorrow, I'll still have someplace to store/show my snaps online.
With flickr, I'm trading basically style control for an enhanced social aspect-I'm inclined to prefer the latter; because I'm getting hits from people who are not just in the MTR social circle-and more importantly, people are also hitting on the band pictures-which may be helpful to the bands I photograph. It would be nice to know that someone decided to investigate a band that I've photographed, found they liked them, and bought their CD. I'm really big on supporting my music-perhaps moreso than anything else.
