For no reason at all today, I decided to try to fix my old gallery software, as I had several hundred photos uploaded, and I wanted to be able to view them again. It's been broken for probably a year or so, and I wanted to back and look at some of the captions I had put on them. (I have all the photos offline, just not without the descriptions.)

Memories fade, but images do not.

Took me about an hour and a half, but I successfully got:

  1. Gallery working again,
  2. Upgraded to the latest version of Gallery 1 so that I could
  3. Run the necessary scripts to import to Gallery 2 and
  4. Import my old Gallery 1 galleries into Gallery 2

So my image galleries are now consolidated at the G2 URL, and this includes my trips to Europe and Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

http://rianjs.net/fotos/

Along similar lines, I've been thinking about what to do with this site, because I haven't been writing here very much. I like owning my name, and at some point, I will probably open some type of medical practice, and I'd really like to start doing some professional blogging under my real name instead of doing it anonymously like I have been lately. (That'll take quite a shift as there is some freedom in anonymity which allows me to post stuff I otherwise might not be able to — though perhaps less than one may be inclined to think.)

But at the same time, there's quite a lot of content here, and not all of it would I want potential clients and business partners to see, so I've gone back and pruned out probably 75-100 blog entries that are either nothing but fluff, or so contrary to the person I am today as to be "not me" anymore. Or just so negative I'm embarrassed to have written them.

At some point in the near future, I am probably going to change the look of the site as well.