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Site News
Well, I’ve proven quite crap at updating this news weblog, proven by the fact you’re probably thinking “what the hell is this feed? I don’t remember subscribing to this”.
If you’re reading this through an RSS/News Aggregator, in a few days the “News” will be going away and replaced with an “Image of the Day” style RSS feed. Except I’ll be updating it twice a day, because I’m nice.
And by I’ll be updating I mean my server will be updating, therefore negating the aforementioned crap behavior.
If you’re the impatient type, and can deal with me ironing out a few bugs, you can subscribed to the image feed here
Posted December 29, 2005
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April 18th was the 99th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The photographs from that period are some of the most impressive in the archive.
Also, incredibly enough, there are survivors of the quake who are still alive.
Gracias to the pioneering onfocus for the reminder.
Posted May 03, 2005
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I’ve upped the download limit on the large images to 2000 a day. So far there’s been no major problems with bandwidth, so we’ll see how the new limit works out.
Posted March 14, 2005
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Posted March 04, 2005
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Those of you who still visit websites (as opposed to reading rss feeds) will notice I’ve added a strip of images to the homepage.
I’ve also added some links to each image listing page. Previously, each image was cross referenced/linked by Category. I’ve extended that to include Year Taken, Credit and Location, (example). If you run into any problems, you know what to do.
Posted February 26, 2005