What a chore!

[c9]

I obsessive-compulsively live in fear that pictures I've posted in the past will disappear, on this wild, ever-chaging web. So tonight I made my own copies, and re-linked to them, for all the way back to August. It took way too long. They ought to automate that sort of thing.

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[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

The only thing about that is then you can never move them... after a few years you've got old pics crufting up your server, which is especially annoying if you put them in a few different places.

Though it is amusing to re-discover something you posted years ago when you notice someone accessing it in your server stats...

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

agreed.

but, i'm rather crazy about filing systems and labeling.

i'm pretty much a freakishly organized pack rat.
i still have emails from 1998...

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I think my email archive goes back to '93... but of course, it's on a CD and in a weird database format for an Amiga program called AmiMail (I think). Running strings on it would get me 99% of the text, though, so I suppose its feasible to think I could re-integrate all that old email into my current archive...

hmm... do I smell a Sunday afternoon project? :-)

Now, if I could only convince the school to let me have the mainframe archive tapes, I could get *all* my old email, right back to the beginning! (except for the BBS stuff, which would go back into the 80's...)

Thanks for getting me thinking about this! :)

[c9.livejournal.com]

Damn. I wouldn't have anything on those tapes, I don't think. I was on the UNIX systems from the start, and those I freely deleted.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

That's why I use Flickr for such things. Well, that and the fact that I don't have a web server. Even if you mark the images as private (so copyright material doesn't show up all over your account) you can link directly to the image. Then you just have to hope that Flickr sticks around...

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's one thing I dislike about the popularity of Flickr. Trusting them to stay in business, keep their URLs compatible, and having to pay once I have more than x images/MB or whatever.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

According to their current model, they keep all of your photos with a free account. You can only see the last 100 uploaded in your photostream - but you can direct-link to any of them. And they're very conscious that people need their links to stay static – so you’d only have to worry about that if they got malicious. And now that they’re owned by Yahoo I have greater trust that they’ll be around for a while.

Still, there is a lot of trust required. Same thing with GMail – I keep a lot of stuff “saved” on their servers. I’m not sure there is a better way around it other than a) running your own server b) squatting on a friend’s server. So then I suppose it comes down to trusting your friend. :-).

[c9.livejournal.com]

I only trust Ben as far as I can throw him.