XiXiDu Info

I’ve started using Picasa recently. Version 3.1 is really sweet, it’s so easy to upload photos to Picasa Web or videos to YouTube using it! Althought the import function and folder structure is very poor compared to Lightroom, it is free and it can handle all my photos and videos (>450k) and still run smooth. The Face detection future is also neat.

So check out my Picasa Web Album which I will be using alongside Flickr:

picasaweb.google.com/xixidu

Don’t expect photographic ambitious photos tho, I’ll just use it for miscellaneous images.

I started using Wakoopa yesterday, thanks KnightMare who told me about it. Here is my profile:

http://wakoopa.com/XiXiDu

You can see what applications, including web-based applications, I’m using, when and for how long.

This morning by chance my dad saw a car labeled with the Google logo and mounted with various cameras and technical equipment in front of our house when leaving. A few meters and seconds later he took this and other photos out of his car:

Google Streetview Car

I wonder when this data will go online. But what strikes me most is that Google does this at all in Germany, since I’m sceptic that they have any chance winning all those lawsuits this will provoke. There are just too many people that have problems with this for some reason and our law isn’t very liberal when it comes to privacy concerns either.
 

P.S.
Unfortunately you cannot see the Google logo since it was on the driver’s side.

51°53′27.94″N
8°22′45.71″E
Germany
33332 Gütersloh
Münstermannsweg