Andy Chase

I recall that posting photos was the perfect activity for when I didn't feel like writing, but wanted to add something to the site... so there's no reason I shouldn't get back into that habit as well.One thing that still bugs me about Movable Type, and Blog-related, web-based CMS in general, is the lack of good, native support for photo management.

By photo management I mean something along the lines of Apple's iPhoto, which preserves a pristine copy of your original image while letting you crop, rotate, tweak, caption, rename, and otherwise manipulate it... and then takes care of creating linked thumbnails for you.

But it occurs to me... since iPhoto is really good at organizing photos, I should let it take care of archiving my original images... I can deal for the time being with manually exporting them and then uploading them to MT for web consumption. I'll bet the process could be even better automated with AppleScript, if somebody hasn't done it already. Too bad I don't know AppleScript.

Anyway, I recall that posting photos was the perfect activity for when I didn't feel like writing, but wanted to add something to the site... so there's no reason I shouldn't get back into that habit as well, especially with the huge backlog of photos I have at my disposal. It would be an excuse to take new photos too.

(The first photo.)

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Postscript, 1/6/2004: Once again, somebody's way ahead of me on this one.