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Almost as soon as I had typed the last period of my last post (regarding the benefits and wonders of Picasa), I decided to delve into the upgrade pricing of Picasa versus their inimitable pseudo-rival, Flickr. I knew about Flickr. I have friends that use Flickr. I never used the free option for Flickr because I have far too many pictures and would use my monthly allotted bandwidth very quickly, so why bother? Picasa allows upgrades, the only one of which I could entertain using was the first level upgrade, something like $25/year for 6.25 GB of storage. You’d think that would be enough for me, right? But no. I checked my photos, and we currently have almost 7 GB of photos. Crazy, I know, but it is what it is.

Then I looked at Flickr’s pricing. $25/year for unlimited uploads and unlimited storage. So, even though I liked the Picasa integration with their photo organizing software, Flickr’s plan was much more palatable. So I took the dive and bought a pro account at Flickr. I couldn’t be happier. Their online photo management tools are a breeze to use, some would almost say fun. Most of my pictures are marked private, for the eyes of only those I deem worthy, but a few of the goofier ones are available for public viewing. For the most part, I’m using my account to store all of our priceless images on a different hard drive than my own in case mine decides to randomly bite the dust (a la my transmission in my car a couple of weeks ago).

The funny thing is is that I did not want to spend money to store my pictures, even the seemingly trivial amount of $25. But, thanks to the fine folks at north carolina furniture and a few other places I’ve been posting on behalf of, I had $25 to spare. The choice was made for me. I had to acquiesce. Count me one of the millions that love Flickr.

Picasa (a Google product) just upped everyone’s storage to 1 gig, free of charge. I like the software and I like the website the photos are shown on, so I was happy to hear about this update. I’ve been looking for an inexpensive site to store all of my photos, and I know I’m going to have to pony up for more storage than just a gig. It was down to picasa or flickr, but with this last update (which includes video storage), picasa may just get my vote, especially for the software that makes it very easy to sort, categorize, and upload your pictures and videos. The picture below is the exterior of the restaurant we ate at before attending the double-bill of Huey Lewis and the News and Chicago. Unfortunately, we were about 20 years too late to hear a good show.

From Huey Lewis Concert…yes, you read that right…

And no, I don’t mean it’s a meeting place for Phds (otherwise I wouldn’t be allowed). Scribd is billed as a YouTube for documents where anyone can upload any document. Many free (maybe legal?) ebooks to be had. Worth a look. Anyone want to guess if it stays around for a year or more?

Also, as vidncd by currnt domain nams lik flickr and scribr, will our languag becom so shortnd that w will vntually dcid to do away with all e’s?