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Wings of Desire
Originally uploaded by joaobambu.

Did you know…
…that flickr "has the special characteristic of realizing and putting on the web genuine photos, loyal to the idea of photographic art ".

Someone at La Repubblica sure knew that!

I wonder if he has ever gone beyond the flickr homepage though.

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Originally uploaded by kozan.

Another note to myself:

Always, always ensure that your tripod’s quick release plate is on the camera you are carrying with you and not on another camera.

Believe me, it is pretty annoying when you get to some location at night, spend 15 minutes framing and spot-metering everything and everywhere and then realize you can’t use your tripod because that damn plate is at home.

Lunar Eclipse
Originally uploaded by DarkFrame.

Ratts!! I have missed the eclipse!! The new Canon 400d I have ordered some days ago won’t arrive until monday or tuesday. And flickr is full of wonderful moon photos today Well, this does not mean I would have been able to take such good shots, but I just feel I’m being late again on the big train of life (whatever this sentence means). RATTS!!

Now back to work. MSVC link errors and performance evaluation of parallel systems are waiting for me.

PS: my thanks go to the wonderful, reliable, fast and cheap italian postal service.

I have stumbled upon a new interesting website today: beta.zooomr.com

zooomr is basically another photo sharing service like flickr, picasa, or kodakgallery (there’s plenty of them!).

To be honest, it is suspiciously similar to flickr! It offers almost the same features and it has a quite similar interface. I think they might be using the same frameworks, at least on the javascript side, as some parts of the interface are identical (text editing, notes, tag editing…).

I looked for any connection to flickr or Yahoo, but it seems that this is an independent project, with three developers (leaded by Kristopher Tate) and Wendell Davis III as interim CEO (google his name and you will find out that he is not a newcomer).
zooomr introduces some nice features that are missing (or less useful) in flickr (but the latter has a far better web design IMHO Read more

Jason Famularo has made a nice Google module to display one or a set of Flickr pictures. The problem is that I want to display one of my own images in a random fashion. The Flickr API has a flickr.photos.search method that allows you to retrieve the photos of a specific user. The problem is that you cannot retrieve them in a random order. There are the only parameters that allow you to change the photo order:

min_upload_date

Photos with an upload date greater than or equal to this value will be returned. The date should be in the form of a unix timestamp.

max_upload_date

Photos with an upload date less than or equal to this value will be returned. The date should be in the form of a unix timestamp.

min_taken_date

Photos with an taken date greater than or equal to this value will be returned. The date should be in the form of a mysql datetime.

max_taken_date

Photos with an taken date less than or equal to this value will be returned. The date should be in the form of a mysql datetime.

sort

Deafults to date-posted-desc. The possible values are: date-posted-asc, date-posted-desc, date-taken-asc, date-taken-desc, interestingness-desc, interestingness-asc, and relevance.

This means that I had to find a “hack”
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