Took a few hours yesterday to do a major rescape (re-landscape) of my tank to make more room for plants and give them better lighting.
Old layout.
New layout.
It should be much easier to clean the back of the tank now (I think it was getting so full of fish poop that the water always looked dirty). I’m planning on picking up a few new plants in the next few days so hopefully in a few weeks they’ll fill in and I’ll be able to take an awesome ‘after’ shot to post.
Google’s Picasa is by far my favorite photo application and I’ve chosen flickr to share my photos due to its popularity and cheap pro plan. Unfortunately there’s no flickr plugin for Picasa since it doesn’t even support plugins. When I want to upload photos I have to manually drag them from Windows Explorer into the flickr uploadr. This works acceptably well for a small number of photos (hitting ctrl+enter on a photo in Picasa will reveal it in Explorer so you don’t have to track it down by filename) but for a large set, like my recent trip to Italy, it would take hours! I took about 1000 photos in Italy and had selected about 130 that I wanted to put on flickr. The fastest way I found to get this group of photos onto flickr was;
Since Google has Picasa Web Albums I doubt they’d make an effort to improve Picasa -> flickr integration but maybe someone will be able to hack some flickr options into Picasa at some point. I’m just glad I don’t take too many pictures or this process would drive me nuts.
Maybe once school is done I’ll find time to post something here that’s worth reading/looking at. I realize that by blogging about blogging I’m being as lame as those podcasters who only talk about podcasting (old Adam Curry podcasts come to mind). Therefore I’ll direct you to photos from my recent trip to Italy!
Be back in another 3 months…