On the way home from the KRON event yesterday, Scott and I stopped off at a Cingular store and finally got around to unifying our cell phone accounts into one family plan, which ought to save us about $50 a month.
Of course, we offset these savings by going for the saleswoman’s offer of “buy one, get one free” on the oh-so-cool Motorola V3 Razor. So now we have a new 2 year Cingular contract and his-and-hers Razors, and I finally have a phone with a camera in it.
I’ve wanted to try photoblogging for a while but didn’t have the tools to make it happen. It’s not that hard to pull photos off my Sony digital camera onto my PC and then upload to the blog, but it’s not something I can do on the go. After poking around the net last night looking for moblogging apps, I found that Flickr has a tool that integrates with an existing Movable Type blog, and signed up. The post below shows that it works, although I have to figure out how to streamline the formatting a bit.
I could, of course, set up a full moblog here on the website; I found at least 2 freeware packages that would allow me to do it. But I’d need to set up a new MYSQL database on the web server and that would mean paying my web host some extra $. Plus it would mean some hours dusting off my old code skills to try to integrate that blog with this one. If Flickr starts to suck I might do that, but for now I’ll go the free, no coding required route.
So, expect to see some photoblogging along with the usual stuff in the future.