Nothing is more trite than talking about the weather but, this is my blog, so I will do what I want. There really aren’t seasons in Boston, sweah to gahd guy. On May twenty third, I was wearing two shirts, a sweater, and a jacket, running through freezing rain in Harvard Square. It was 40 degrees. Now a scant two weeks later, I find myself laying in bed at night, in my underwear, surrounded by oscillating fans, wishing for a quick death by humidity. It is 94 degrees out today. It’s all about extremes, four feet of snow, or instant skin cancer because the sun is hovering over the city six feet from the street’s surface.
Aside from obsessing over the weather, I have been doing things of actual value believe it or not. I finally made the jump to Flickr and have a sweet pro account, thanks to a generous friend. I am pretty taken by their tools, and with the neat things you can do with syndication, badges, tagging, moblogging, and the like. I’m looking forward to really digging into it and becoming a full fledged Flickr nerd once I explore each and every corner of functionality. The main thing that had kept me from moving to Flickr, was a somewhat irrational need to have all of my photos contained on my own webspace. I was pretty invested in my use of Gallery, and needed some real motivation to make the move. The tipping point, for lack of a better term, was my sudden and unexpected interest in other people’s photos. I really didn’t think I would be so caught up in the networking and sharing aspect of Flickr, but each day I find myself spending fifteen or twenty minutes browsing random photos. I am hoping that others also stumble across mine once they are all up there, and that I make some new connections through the site. I plan on taking my 2 or 3 gigs of photos and moving them over from Gallery as soon as I get the chance, hopefully this week. In addition, I plan on using Flickr and Flickr Groups to power the photo galleries and photo sections of two other projects that are undergoing some serious overhauls this summer.
Another thing that has kept me busy (well at least for one night a month) is the local media and entertainment networking mixers. Last night was the sixth one I believe, and maybe the best one yet. Great crowd, awesome venue, good time as always. Duncan has some good photos (on Flickr as a matter of fact), check em out.
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