Avinash Meetoo: Blog

Kyan, Anya, Christina and myself wish you all a very Happy New Year 2007… Have a lot of fun during tonight’s parties! Drink a lot! But don’t drive

See you in 2007…

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I’ve just uploaded some new photos on Flickr.

Since discovering Flickr (and since becoming a Pro member courtesy of Stéphane), I have become an addict. I spend hours everyday creating sets, changing the metadata of existing photos (especially the old ones i.e. those I did on my film camera) and viewing slideshows with awe. I’ve obviously joined some groups and I have started contributing photos and comments. I must be feeling like Christopher Columbus felt just after discovering America…

Flickr is fantastic! Try it!

By the way, I have adopted the following workflow:

• Import all photos from my digital camera to a folder using Image Capture on my MacBook (I simulatenously rename all photos (from IMGxxxx.jpg to YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS.jpg) using the free and absolutely great ExifRenamer application),
• Import all the renamed photos to iPhoto and only use film rolls for organisation,
• Delete all crap photos (have no mercy!),
• Beautify what remain (crop, enhance, retouch…),
• Tag the best ones with a specific keyword (I use Flickr),
• Upload those ones using Flickr Uploadr (more precisely the latest beta version as the stable version has stopped working),
• Create a new set or update existing sets on Flickr,
• Announce to the world (my weblog and some family mailing list) that something fantastic has just happened

Phew!

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An update: The problem we are all having is due to the earthquake that has occured near Taiwan this morning… I hope that the contestants from the two Taiwanese teams and their friendly coach who we met at the ACM-ICPC contest in Kanpur are OK…

A second update: Flickr, del.icio.us and Google are quick again! So either the routers have been (re)set or they have learnt to use better routes… IP rocks

I don’t know about you but my Internet connection is (relatively) crap today. Some websites are as slow as molasses:

• Flickr
• Google
• del.icio.us
• …

and some are perfectly normal (i.e I manage to transfer around 25KB/s on my 256Kbit/s ADSL line):

• My weblog…
• Wikipedia
• MySpace (easily the ugliest website on earth)
• Servihoo
• Le Mauricien and L’Express
• …

I don’t know what to deduce… It seems fishy that Flickr, del.icio.us and especially Google have technical problems at the same time right now. So I can only say that the problem is here in Mauritius (can someone from abroad check those sites?). Can be a faulty proxy server… Or is it the sign of a purposely faulty proxy server?

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