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A Decade

According to my calendar (and memory), today is the ten years anniversary since Leah and I first dated. Time flies by, indeed. Sentimental and nostalgic seekers please head to Leah’s blog. Only dull posts are allowed here (These are not the fun post you are looking for. Move along).

(Ok, what’s the point of having a semi-geek blog with geek content in each post? So geeks read on, normal people move along.)

Keeping track of anniversary dates aren’t easy even in this day and age of advanced PIM such as Outlook or iCal. Try doing that 10 years back and you can imagine the effort I had to put into. First PIM I used is the Starfish’s Sidekick (remember that?) on my 386 monochrome laptop. Next was the first version of Microsoft Outlook, and then Outlook 97. Finally when I migrated to the Mac I moved the data to Palm Desktop which wasn’t (and still isn’t) that good a PIM. Finally when Apple released iCal (and iSync for syncing with PDA/Phone) I settled my calendar data in iCal.

And this concluded the geek broadcast.

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Flickr Part Deux

I mentioned last week that Flickr upload sucks. It seems that they were moving their server on Thursday to Friday or something. This despite their mentioned of the move on 22nd June! Anyway, I’ve just uploaded a set of 8, 4, and 16, Flickr only chocks once on the set of 16! I guess they are getting back to normal speed.

And I’ve been slowly migrating some of the older photos from TypePad to Flickr so eventually all photos will be on Flickr only.

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Capacity

One of the victims of the cut throat nature of today’s internet business is server and bandwidth capacity. To minimise cost, most (if not all) internet companies tend to provide the least amount of server and bandwidth capacity while satisfying their customers. Very understandable strategy since neither of them are cheap to come by. But when major world event like today’s London bombing occurs, the lesser prepared companies falter.

TypePad hosted blogs seem to be marginally slower today, as is their management site. Blogger seems to be fine.

Technorati and Flickr are hit the hardest with neither of them serving any real content for most of the day. Technorati doesn’t return any search results, while Flickr is having a “massage” at the moment.

Of course, I am speaking purely from an average internet user point of view. I don’t have any empirical data to back up my claim but it is interesting nonetheless.

Update: BBC News has an article about increased usage.

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Upload sucks…

I may be praising Flickr’s features in my last post but when I try to upload a relatively large set of wedding photos (100+ photos) tonight Flickr just kept hanging.

Initially I thought it was because I was using FlickrExport iPhoto plug-in so I switched to Adriaan’s 1001 Flickr client. But I got the same result where every 4 to 5 uploads the process will just hang. After searching through Flickr forum it seems that it is a known problem with Flickr upload process but with no fixes in sight, at least none that I can find.

I guess I just have to keep trying with small batch of 4 or 5 photos at a time. The only issue I have using 1001 is that the app ‘loses’ the last photo being uploaded if I interrupt the process. So if photo #3 is being uploaded and got hang and I press ‘Cancel’, 1001 will cancel the upload but also assume that photo #3 has been uploaded successfully and remove it from the set of not-yet-upload photos. Thus, the next time I press ‘Upload’, 1001 will start from photo #5 instead of #4. Haven’t taken the time to write up this bug to Adriaan yet as I am going to play the new Halo 2 maps just now 🙂

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Flickr

After another prodding from Nick, I’ve finally signed up to Flickr and see for myself what’s so great about it. Indeed, Flickr is so much better than TypePad’s Photo Album feature that I am hoping I’ve tried out Flickr earlier!

Two things that bug me about TypePad’s album are a) inability to choose which albums to show up in the sidebar, and b) no commenting feature on photos. Flickr handles those two issues in excellent style while providing even more management and community features.

So new photos will now be uploaded to Flickr while all the old photo albums are still available in the sidebar on Leah’s site.

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