Tag: Flickr

Backing Up Flickr

I have tried a couple of different publicly available (free) programs to back up my Flickr account.  There are over 25,000 pictures on the account so backing up is kind of a huge undertaking.

The last time I did this it was on a windows machine.  The program I used worked well, but not perfectly.  It failed when there were multiple files in a set that had the same file name.  Why it did not use Flickr’s ID and guarantee uniqueness, I will never know, but the result was my iPhone sets were missing just about everything.  The upload app I normally use sticks the name “photo” on everything that isn’t specifically given a name.  Therefore the back up program just kept overwriting everything.

last night I ran a really slick python script i found.  It ran from the terminal on my Mac and it backed up everything perfectly.  I was really pleased.  I checked the folder created to hold my iPhone 4 set and everything was there.

How many photos were in the folder?

2,112.

Thats right, Rush fans… 2112.

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My 2012 in Pictures – Part Deux

Yeah, I did a my-year-in-pictures thing the other day. It was fun. What the hell, thought I, why not do it again? This time I’ll run fast and loose with the whole one-pic-from-each-month thing. I’m crazy like that.

We have to get our pics of the Sands Bridge in Methuen before she collapses. Or maybe I should say before she finishes collapsing. It’s already started. Also, I don’t think I found a relative in the Grove Street Cemetery, but who knows?

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In February I finally finished an RPM Challenge on time. It only took me five tries. We also got a new bed. Jen’s penguin approved.

Showdown at Canobie Lake Park

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In March, the kids and I became wilderness explorers. Hipstamatic came along for the ride. Actually, we just wandered around in the woods behind our house for a little while. It was fun.

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April in San Diego. I want to go back RIGHT NOW!

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May gave us baseball, Bar Harbor, and my first up close New England Lighthouse.

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The picture pickin’s are slim in June, but we did get a new Rush album (and it is awesome) and we got another fantastic piano recital from the kids.

And all was right with the world...

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July offers more choices after a spontaneous trip to Boston, and a week long stay in Maine that included some time in the mountains of New Hampshire.

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In August we went to the Top of the Hub for the first time in my life. The views of my city were spectacular. We also spent some twilight time on Hampton Beach.

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September had mountain waterfalls, leaf peeping, my first ever attempt at photo-walking in Tewksbury, and more Rush.

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October continues to belong to Washington, DC.

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The camera didn’t come out much in November, but I did torture the cat, and my wife, with my camera phone, and we did celebrate Turkey Day.

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December had more mountains, more mountain streams, and Christmas.

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And there we have a second view of my 2012 in pictures. Forgive the gratuitousness.

Happy New Year (again).

Moon Over the Gas Station

iPhone Astrophotography:  The Moon Over the Gas Station.

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We had a snow storm Saturday night into Sunday.  I cleaned off the cars and the driveway on Sunday morning, but then stayed home for the rest of the day.  When I took the kids to their father’s before work today I realized that I was a touch low on gas.  I could probably get to work, but probably couldn’t get there and back without a fill up.

After dropping the kids off I went to a gas station near their dad’s house.  I hit the button next to the driver’s seat to open up the gas tank and went outside… and the gas tank didn’t open.  Ummm.  That’s never happened before.  I tried again.  Nothing.  I tried prying it open with the only tool I had on me, a pen cap.  Nothing.  Eventually, after about five minutes of digging and prying with the pen cap, and hitting the button over and over again, it opened and I could fill up.  I took a picture of the moon to memorialize the occasion.

Happy New Year.

It is Snowing

It is snowing here tonight.  I just took my camera outside for 2.5 seconds to document the occasion.

First we have the nice looking no-flash pic that magically does not suck.
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We follow that with two pics that used the flash in an attempt at showing just how heavily the white crap is falling on us.
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Tomorrow I expect I’ll have to spark up the snow blower for the first time in two years. I hope it still works. I hope I remember how to use it.

Posterous Broke WordPress

Yesterday I posted two little Hipstamatic pictures via one email to my Posterous account.  At the time I noticed that the format of the post to WordPress was a little screwy.  Today I noticed that my sidebar was posting at the bottom of the page.  I guessed that the two pic post was the culprit and deleted it.  The sidebar returned to the side.  Strange indeed.

I don’t want to have to worry about crap like this.  I want Posterous and WordPress to play nicely and I want everything to continue to work the way it did when I set all of this garbage up a couple of weeks ago.

Anyway, I am in quite the Hipstamood right now so here are those two pictures again.  This time hosted by Flickr.

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Flickr comes to the rescue once again. Gotta love Flickr.