iamcal.com Since May 2000

thanks to kastner for pointing me to this thread from 6 years ago. guess what retarded commenters? i was right all along. see also: everything written on large distributed databases since then.

the 2009 grant-pattishall award was announced today - congrats kellan!

flickr for busy people is a wonderful little app. great work aaron

this photo of solar transit by the space shuttle is incredible. lots of great photos in the nasa stream

sometimes we can be bad people

the logo for dating dna looks like the flickr dots are kissing

"Looks good. We have taken a picture of everything"

what does your (font)face say about you?

looking back through more old photos, flickr's doing pretty well these days

this is my favorite new flickr page. lots of gems in there

accidentally just read diesel sweeties and there was (fortuitously?) a flickr reference

dave winer on the flickr api: not sure what the format of a "unix timestamp" is. ahahahahaha

joey posted a good breakdown of my trifle model from last week's toronto workshop

want to come work for flickr? ok

a very interesting graph looking at the number of photos of various cities on flickr. i'd love to see an 2006 updated version.

this is my new favourite elina (well, second favourite) [via flickr]

somebody's made a flickr theme for adium.

germans are awesome/insane

rituals gets reviewed in wired, a few months after we stop going there. [via eleanor, messina, et al.]

i'm losing my faith in the sanity of users. note-tastic

heather found these great shirts on flickr.

this guy's lego mechs are amazing. very nice work

one of google's datacenters now has this nice mural in it - maybe the new flickr datacenter will have something similar (wall of photos, anyone?) [via mattj]

forget gaming - the psp is mainly a flickr appliance

random images from the flickr-stream: fractal architecture. anyone know where this it?

jbum/krazydad is doing some very cool things with flickr - A Thousand and One Sunsets

mr hammond is doing cool things with flickr - his contacts' most popular tags. nice

it's great having esther as in investor - she can take great photos :)

more slashdot traffic headed our way. hopefully it wont make a dent in the mrtg.

awesome

"Looking for good things about you is like looking for a needle, in a pile of needles, on Planet Needle." not the best pickup line ever, but easily transferable to other more useulf situations - "looking for bugs in flickr, etc etc".

flickr is one year old today. i suspect there will be a spectacular crash in celebration of this :)

a while ago jimmy o'regan wrote a nice article for linux gazette about using flickr with my perl api module.

am idea from tom, so i shouldn't take any credit - londonbloggers now has flickr photos for each station.

smarter child is kinda cool. there's a flickr group for the interested.

these flickr bookmarklets are really awesome.

gah. f was down for 5 hours after a routine database modification revealed massive innodb corruption which had somehow replicated to the slave. after splitting the cluster, our last backup was nine days old and a few million records short. eek. so a painstaking search and destroy for bad records was conducted. stupid mysql.

the kottke piece has predictably descended into bitching: "Note that of the 58 mysql databases I've put up, only 5 required munging". woah - i'm overwhelmed by your experience! ;) at least webb gets it right: "Cal Henderson talks like he normally talks, and sparks fury and righteous anger. Highly entertaining."

this is amazing - visualising delicious tags with size and position [demo]. i wonder if the positioning means anything, or if it's just a randomisation to make the zeitgeist look more interesting.

i'm starting to get quite into flickr as a product (rather than just an api experiment and a time-sink). the calendar views are fucking awesome.