Moovin'

Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London

I finally did something that I've been thinking about for months: migrating all the photos from my homebrew photo gallery into Flickr. As a result, instead of the usual 100-so uploads, this month I've managed 3000 (although you can't see them; they're all private*).

Of course, given this was a one-shot script, I managed to make a few mistakes. I haven't preserved the order of the images, or the sets, and I don't have a handy lookup table, so I can't yet do anything clever like serve the HTML on my own site but the pages from Flickr (or, for that matter, set up redirects; I care about old URLs working, especially because Google seems to like my site enough that I get the odd referrer).

Still, it's nice to have got a small bit of integration out of the way, although, like Tom I still have a bit of tension between signing my life over to other people and handling it myself.

* I'm not entirely sure why, though. After all, they're all visible on my site. Perhaps it's because I want to make sure I don't suddenly flood anyone's RSS feed, and that's best achieved - according to Phil Gyford, anyway - by uploading some other photos after the import. There's also the issue that the images have little metadata, and I'd like to add some tags. Even more time-consumingly, I'm thinking of replacing the old images, which have been resized down from the originals and have no EXIF. I think those are good reasons. I'm not sure though.