been a long time

i just got a new phone which has a camera on it. i haven't played with blogger in a long time. i've just been too busy to blog, and i didn't feel like i could keep up. but now with this new phone, it's a blast to blog !!! i can even write text on my camera phone that posts onto the blog.

i'm going to try to use my talents at writing to try and sell my sticker printing service to the world. i think this is the most dynamic capability i have - i'm a damn good writer, and i experience many things worth writing about. for instance, i just got back from a long drive to new york city in order to party it up for new years' eve. and now with the cameraphone, i can create a GENUINE record of my experience as it happens.

The fact that I can add text to images posted through this phone means that I can go through my day and record it on this blog. And the fact that I run an awesome and interesting e-commerce company means that I will continually have stuff to write about. In the past, I either:

- didn't have a digital camera (the nineties)
- didn't really USE my digital camera (early 2000's)
- finally found a good digital camera (2004: the sd10, since upgraded to an sd30, by canon)
- but didn't bother uploading many pictures because who could be bothered.

Before now, if I wanted to post a photo to a blog, I'd have to:

- download the photo onto my hard drive by taking out the SD card, plugging in my adapter, creating a folder on my hard drive, copying the files from the card, cutting, pasting them onto the new hard drive folder, and waiting)
- that's usually as far as i got
- then select a photo, open up photoshop and change the size settings to something appropriate for the web (crop it, etc)
- then open up an ftp program and upload the photo
- then log in to blogger and knowing the html to add a link eventually add a link
- and FINALLY write something witty to go along with the photo.

As you can understand, I almost never bothered doing this. As a result, the last six years of my life are digital dust - almost nothing published, because it just took too damn long. So finally the technology has shown up to let me get out of this jam. right on to the big corporations who have created this synergistic publishing process for me at long last !!!