I’m attempting to update my Gallery installation to version 2. My photos page may or may not be working in the meantime.

Update: The conversion is complete, but I’m not sure how I feel about it. Gallery is a great package, and I do really like having my pictures on my own site. On the other hand, maintaining Gallery can be a lot of work. The amount of options and details can be daunting.

I’m in the process of trying a Flickr pro account, and moving my pictures there. I have mixed feelings about Flickr. More about that later.

Like my good friend Patrick, I’ve lately been the victim of comment spam. What a pain. I’ve adopted Patrick’s simple approach to the problem by including a visible password on the comment page for each entry. So if you have something to say, you still easily can, but simple spam engines should be fooled.

Lacking a laptop, I’m wondering what my best bet for backing up my digital photos will be while I’m in France. I have an iPod, and I had considered the various attachments that let one load an iPod with photos from a digital camera or from cards. Unfortunately, these solutions don’t seem cheap, and their reviews are mixed at best. Does anyone know of a good travel photo backup plan? I don’t have enough cards to store all the pictures I want to take (although maybe the safest solution is to simply buy more cards).

My iPod is back in business, thanks to the excellent, expeditious service I received from ipodmechanic.com. They replaced the cracked LCD and had it back on its way to me in a day or two. And the very reasonable $130 they charged will teach me to be a bit more careful with it at the locker room. 5-foot falls on to locker room floors are shockingly not covered by Best Buy’s service plan. What do they cover?

I recently started using Blosxom to manage and update my site (as recommended by Patrick). It’s a really slick way to manage a blog or an entire web site.

Now my site features (or will feature soon) categorized posting, RSS, and archives. This is all meaningless now, but it might mean something when I actually start posting with regularity.

8/16/2007 Update: In retrospect, Blosxom sucks. MovableType was way better, and WordPress better still.