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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[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.