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Stars and Stripes

First off, everyone celebrate! This is my 100th Post or Page in the OB1og. That’s probably 50 more than I thought I’d get to at this point, but I guess a good chunk — 44 at current count — are just Asides, so maybe I am half-fluff.

Okay, the real point of this post is to point out to you that I have been making some adjustments to my Flickr photostream over the last month or so. Ever since I have upgraded to a Pro account, I have been playing with more features. I recently, as in today, decided to mark some photos as viewable by Friends, Family or Friends & Family only.

What does that mean to you? Well, if you aren’t one of my Flickr Contacts and I didn’t mark you as either a Friend or Family, then you can’t see those photos. Now, I’m not doing to this to drive you all to get a Flickr account (not that I’d get anything out of that if I were), but more to protect people’s privacy. As it stands now, I marked all the pictures of your children as private for Friends and Family. If you want any photos of you marked the same, then let me know. By the same token, if you’d ever like photos of yourself (or child, etc.) removed, then let me know too. I’ll probably say no to that just because why can’t your friends or my family see them, but whatever. 😉

This brings me to something else I have been doing, which is tagging my photos. So, if you ever want to see all the pictures I have of you up there, simply go to the Tags page and find your name or nickname (there are too many Jen(n)’s!!!) and click on it. The whole privacy thing applies here, so if a photo is marked private and someone public looks at my tags, they won’t see the tag if all its photos are private. The same is true for photo sets as well, so it is good stuff.

If you sign up for a Flickr account (a 30 second process if you already have a Yahoo! ID), mark me as a Contact and I’ll then mark you as a Friend or Family. I know some of you already use Kodak and others, but if you don’t, then Flickr is good because you can basically backup your photos on-line for free! Hard drives fail and home-burned CDs and DVDs will die after awhile, but Flickr is a full-blown service and just like your company, they back their sh!t up. It is also cool because when you go in to your page, you can see any new photos your contacts have uploaded and go check them out.

Finally, I’m going to troll for comments. I know Ed loves to bust on me for that, but he’s actually one of the few that ever leaves comments on my photos, so he’s allowed. Anyway, you do need a Flickr account to leave a comment and I appreciate them because it’s nice to know if I’m doing well with my photography. It’s also good to know if you don’t like a photo too, as long as you tell me what that is! I have been getting more serious about it as a hobby over the last year or so and I’m about to drop some serious cash on a nice digital SLR, so that means even more photo-e-goodness. It also means you’ll start seeing more recent photos instead of all these older sets I have been posting just to get them out there.

So, that’s all that for Flickr. The only other thing I got is I finally had that iced coffee tonight. Sure is good…