overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out

oh, hi.

this site is a tad different now, but still bad by dave's opinion. i wanted to consolidate all of my various sources of data and present them in a time-sorted way.

since my old media script that thumbnailed and displayed all of my ~9000 pictures was basically just translating url's into directory names and listing files in the fly, there wasn't a good way to sort them by date or add other grouping functions like tags or sets, other than just directory names. since these would be more functions that i'd be duplicating from flickr, i figured i'd just bite the bullet and move my photos there. that was a harrowing experience in itself, which i will get into later.

since i've been playing around with sqlite for the past few weeks while developing the software for a new forum, i decided to use a sqlite database for housing all of the data, which was previously in separate plain-text files. currently i am downloading and parsing xml/rss feeds from my recent flickr photos, my up-voted links from reddit, my bookmarks from del.icio.us, and my recent track plays from last.fm (which are currently hidden until i figure out how to better display them). i moved my quotes files and recently seen movies and read books into the database as well.

there is some more work to do as far as consolidating tags among all of the data sources and figuring out how to selectively filter this view and/or the rss feed.