sadara.be

as you’ve maybe noticed, i’ve changed the theme on my blog. the new theme, called ‘viala’, was written by david garlitz, who has made it freely available under the GPL licence – generous man. you can download it here.

also new is the flickr plugin, which is ‘Flickr Photo Album‘, written by joe tan, seen here asleep on a plane. this is a great plugin; i’ve tested quite a few flickr plugins over the last 2 or 3 years and this is the most comprehensive and trouble-free i’ve come across. installing it was a breeze – for which i’m very grateful. i stumbled a little when it came to customising the photoalbum pages to fit the viola theme, but in the end it was very simple.

i don’t know about you, but as soon as i read about the possibility that micro$oft would take over yahoo, i began to search for an alternative to flickr.com (part of yahoo) to host my photos.

there’s google’s picasa, of course, but i’ve always found it appallingly slow and it seems to insist on running programs on my computer to inventarise and manage all the images on my hard drives. this i don’t want. i just want somewhere to put my photos where anyone (i choose) can get at them.

but there’s 23hq.com. i’d never heard of it before but it seems to have all the main features a modest user of flickr like me would need. there isn’t an API, which means little chance of swish facebook applications, but there is an RSS feed and even a wordpress plugin called ‘23hq integrator‘ (which i have yet to test).

23hq is also danish, which somehow feels like a breath of confidence-inspiring fresh air.

and … del.icio.us is also part of yahoo. now the search for an alternative to del.icio.us …

the photos on flickr are now also in the photo gallery on this site, thanks to a great plug-in from elijah cornell which you can find here.

there’s a ‘photos’ link on the sidebar.