digital guerrilla

So the night of that storm, my internet connection went down. Next day, still down and I was leaving for the weekend for the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games so I didn’t get around to getting it fixed until today. Realized in the interim though how much of my contact with the outside world has become internet based (news, weather, email, blogs, etc.).As for the highland games, I’ll be posting an entry about them soon (no seriously, I wrote most of it while I was there so I just have to revise it a tad). I will say overall that these particular games felt like DragonCon only with all of the geek interests replaced with Scottish ones.

So why am I posting this somewhat non-entry? Because I’ve recently fallen for a new photo website, zooomr and they have offered up free “pro” memberships for any bloggers. While flickr still wins in the “posting from my phone” category (the last time I tried posting to zooomr from my phone the photo never showed up), the one feature that hooked me is the ability to “geotag” your photos, linking them to a specific place. So if you looked at all of my highland games photos, you can actually see on a Google map where they were taken and check for any other photos geotagged as being nearby. I’m not yet ready to really pimp the site, but once I get a chance to kick the tires on the new version launching Friday, I may start talking it up to everyone the way I’ve been trying to push 30boxes (go and use it, your life will thank you).

Next up though will be my thoughts on what it was like to be camped literally five feet from where the pipers and drummers would play after the day’s events were over.