Somehow, I just can't bring myself to sign up for a yahoo account in order to keep using flickr. I already HAVE a yahoo account, actually, that I set up to join a mailing list, but I don't feel like I need to put any more eggs in that basket. I've got my own server whirring away in the closet (I hit 1000 days uptime in a few months!), so I can do the hosting myself no problem. It's starting to bother me that all of this stuff is over there on their drives, not on my own machine. What else does flickr do for me? The interface is snappy, but hasn't changed at all in the last two years. I'm getting tired of the white background. There may be some things I could do with the API, but I left web development for a good reason: it's a pain in the ass. The social aspect of it was fun at first—I even went to a couple of the local meetups and met some cool people—but now it just seems noisy and impersonal.

So that's the reason, one of the reasons, I haven't posted in a while. I have a couple things in the queue—floating the canoe, starting on the next boat—but I have to figure out a new workflow: I'm done with flickr.