20th Sep 2003
All Roads Lead To …
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I’ve been working on, or at least thinking about, a few threads revolving around work, digital imaging, photography, and relocation for some time now. All of the little roads are starting to converge. October’s the month, and New York is the place! |
FlexiPhoto is available to preview if someone wants to check it out (and will be public soon). I will be launching my personal photography site pretty soon, which is SnapSmith.com. SnapSmith will be an example of what FlexiPhoto looks and feels like in a straightforward photographer site. It’s going to be about the photos, not necessarily the tech. My wife will be migrating her site, SusanPrice.com, to use FlexiPhoto; so that will become yet another example.
I have given thought to the work/demo front. I just ordered a new 17″ 1.33ghz PowerBook! I’ll have it sometime next week, and will quickly get it together with Apache/MySQL/PHP/ImageMagick, so that no matter where I go, I can at least have a standalone web site to show FlexiPhoto. I was way overdue to upgrade my laptop, and wanted something with a big screen that’s going to resize images in a snap. It’ll also be my development machine while I’m in New York. I’ll also have my little Toshiba 3110 Linux laptop along, which I’ll set up to wirelessly do FlexiPhoto browsing off of the Mac (mixed environment in my messenger bag? check!)
Another thread over the next month is just getting out and meeting programmers, photographers, people interested in photo cataloguing, and so on. I’m looking forward to making some new contacts.
For now, all roads lead to New York. I am at once hopeful that the trip will bear some fruit, and also mindful that sometimes it may be Big City, Closed Doors, and perhaps a disbelieving face or two. A typical day should involve meetings, some photography, and some programming. I have no illusions that any of this is going to be easy, but I happen to have the time to do it, am in great health, and just don’t want to look back later with a big sense of “what would have happened? what if I had?”, etc. Gotta take time to really check things out ever so often!
