Hey, has anyone had pictures disappear from Flickr? I just realized that everything I posted there before December 2004 is not showing up. (Probably about 4 months worth of photos.) Actually they're still there, because I clicked on one form October 2004 that I posted in my blog, and it takes me to the picture in Flickr, but when I look at "My photos" or in the archives, it doesn't show me anyhting previous to Dec/04.

A free account on Flickr only lets you see the last 200 photos you have uploaded: [link]

So I'm recently having problems with my surround sound system. My center and left speakers won't produce any sound unless I turn the volume up to a certain point, at which point I can then turn the volume back down and they'll work fine until I turn the power off. My guess is there's some kind of resistance in the speaker cables that takes some oomph to overcome at first. But I spent over an hour last night wedging myself behind my enterainment center reseating all the wires (and doing the same with the speakers themselves) and it's still doing the same thing. My next step is to get some new cables and see if that helps, but before I practice my contortion abilities again, I'm wondering if I'm on the right track or not.

Thanks Tom.

Hmph! I do not like this. When Flickr started it's selling point was that you could store as many photos as you want, you just had the monthly bandwith limit. I feel like they're holding my old photos hostage.

Okay, 'ffistas. What is coming up with the Series3 Tivos, when are they coming out, and how much is the speculation they will cost? I thought I didn't care, because I have my DirecTivo, but we'll maybe have cable available when we move, so we're weighing our entertainment options.

Yeah, what Sue said! I suddenly like Flickr a lot less.

Hasn't it always been that way? Free accounts let you store as many photos as you want, but only display 200 at a time. (Even though you can still link to them individually -- they're not gone, just not displayed.)

Hasn't it always been that way? Free accounts let you store as many photos as you want, but only display 200 at a time.

I'm pretty sure that it's new since I signed up. I can't say that I read the TOS thoroughly when I signed up (Sept/04), but I recall that there big selling point over yahoo and others was that there was no limit to the amount of storage space you could have, just the monthly uploading limit. It seems disingenuous to say, "Oh yeah, you can store as many photos as you want, you just can't see them all."

Thought I'd ask here, just in case -- I'd really like to try out Final Cut Express, or Final Cut Pro for the Mac, but I really do sincerely want to give it a try before handing over a great deal of money. Does anybody have a copy I could borrow?

(Or for that matter, "borrow" -- but rest assured, I will legitimately buy the product if I really do like it. Signed, Worked For A Software Company, Is Aware of Copyright Issues, Wants to See Honest Programmers Make A Living )

A friend got approached for a contract she can't handle, and referred me instead. "Referred" is not the right word; she did put major effort into getting me the contract. It seems to me that it would only be fair to give her a percentage as thank you. Decades ago, in a completely different business 3% was a considered a reasonable percent for this sort of thing, but I have no idea what would be standard in the tech business in today's market.