This is the old flickr organizr

So I upgraded, and started uploading pooploads of photos (marked private) from years gone by.  Things went smoothly except for the occasional crash of the various 3rd party bulk uploaders (maybe this is a way to help curb excessive storage).  One of the annoyances, however, was that I now had thousands of photos in my photostream that prevented me from seeing recent, non-backup photos.  After some internetting, I found a decent solution–you can change the upload date of your photos (you can also change the “taken on” date of your photos in the same fashion).  It seems like there’s some intentional pushback from Flickr to include this as a real feature, so for now here are two mildly unfriendly but usable methods:

Old Flickr Organizer is flickr’s old organizer.  It’s a bit slow and sometimes forgets what it’s doing.

1. Put the photos you’d like to change the date of into a set (if you want to update a group of photos).  Note that you can change the date of up to 500 photos at a time.
2. Go to the old organizer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?old=1
3. Click on the the set or select the photo you’d like to change
4. Under batch edit, click “Dates” (the “Dates” link might be partially hidden by the set thumbnail)
5. Check the box “Change Dates Posted” and select the date and time you’d like the photo(s) to have been posted
6. Click “DOOOOO IT!”
7. You’ll see it tick off each date change one by one.

h4ppierphotos is a full featured but very raw organizational tool that uses flickr’s API to make date changes.

1. Open h4ppierphotos
2. Allow h4ppierphotos to access your photo stream by granting it permission on flickr
3. Click the “Very h4ppy” radio button at the top in order to access advanced date features
4. Set search parameters for the photos you’d like to date-change
5. In display preferences, check the “show date uploaded” box so that you know when each photo was uploaded
6. Click the “Search all photos” button.  If you’re searching for hundreds of photos, it may take a while to load
7. Determine the desired upload date and calculate in hours, days or years how much time you’d like to add or subtract.  Enter this next to the “Time shift the upload date of these photos” button
8. Click “Time shift the upload date of these photos”.  It may take several minutes to process all date changes

There you have it…two ways to restore order (literally) to your photostream!

Here are the feeds in my Reader:

jaysus.

If you’re ever in need of a jack-of-all-trades web consultant/designer/developer, drop me an email at gregtakayama@gmail.com.

Kris: i think am in love
Kris: will you marry me?
Greg: no way dude
Greg: your face
Kris: it’s true
Greg: areyou proposing?
Greg: if so
Greg: ok fine
Kris: go to churches
Kris: i’ll mary you
Kris: kiss you
Kris: and fuck you
Kris:

This seemed peculiar as 1) Kris is actually a dude, 2) He’s never gchatted me…ever and 3) He’s already married so I don’t see how he could marry me and fuck me with out getting into big trouble with his wife. At one point I thought he might be really drunk and making a lot of mistakes with a lot of friends:

Kris: I’m very sorry
Kris: i think..
Kris: i am intoxicat
Kris: intoxicated
Kris: beer
Greg: proove it
Kris: noooooooooooooo

But, it turned out that someone had hacked into his gmail account and was using it for probably the most inane thing you could use a hacked gmail account for–chatting with the person’s friends. This hacker must have been pretty dumb. He ended up giving me Kris’s email and password:

Kris: I’m hacker
Greg: nah
Greg: kris is a hacker
Greg: so you’re a hacker
Greg: so you are kris
Kris: no
Kris: kris.*****@gmail.com/[password redacted]
Greg: oh rad!
Greg: now i can be kris too.
Greg: lemme try

Click "details" to see session information and to log out all sessions.

I remembered reading on the Gmail blog (yep, I’m a nerd) that you can see all locations from which your gmail account has been accessed as well as signed all sessions out. So, I put this feature to the test, logged into Kris’s account and signed out all the sessions, then logged back in and changed his password before the guy had a chance to log back in. I was eventually able to get a hold of his then fiancée, and the day was saved!
Here are instructions on the Gmail blog about how to log out all active sessions. »

JetBlue’s Bikini Sale.

Seemed like a deal to me. Oh the power of email marketing.

I just cooked a bratwurst.  I’m hungry and the app is great.  This is a way better gimmick than the zippos lighter.

The meat is from Bell, a German meat company, and the app by Rod Kommunikation. It’s free in the app store (iTunes link).

via swissmiss.

Raging sausage of hell.

Objectified is a design geek’s design movie. There wasn’t really a thesis to bring the movie together, but it might have been that the lack of a thesis was the take away: design is many things to many people and because of its highly subjective unquantifiable nature, who’s to say who’s right.

Art&Copy is a film I haven’t seen. But it pulls at a side of me that is buried away just waiting to get free–something along the lines of profitable creativity. Advertising is, on the surface, fascinating.

Here’s an idea, however. Let market forces determine the name. They should put naming up on the auction block with the highest bidder claiming 300 year naming rights. The proceeds of the sale will fund the production of stickers which will then be distributed to school kids around the world so that they may update their maps and globes. Or…even better, let corporate entities bid, maybe the world needs a “Samsung Sea” or a “Cisco Systems Ocean” (formerly Pacific Ocean).

Maybe it should say "To anyone who reads this text"

It’s motivationally masturbatory to read all 128 slides of the deck–pleasureful but perhaps pointless unless put into action. My question is…how do you effect change if you work for an organization that is stagnant, bureaucratic or traditional?

Even in a small, dynamic web company, altering company culture is extremely difficult. It’s like trying to make someone quit smoking–it’s difficult to externally alter human routine.

On a separate note, I liked Tony Hsieh’s tweet today:

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -Winston Churchill

Here’s one of my favorite talks by Ken Robinson. I can fully relate to Robinson’s declarations about creativity and the eduction system. I was one of those kids who couldn’t ever sit still in class. I’ve found that at work, I need to plod and pace around conference rooms in which I’ve holed myself up in to actually focus. I need to change locations every 30 minutes, or change positions and kick my feet up on a file cabinet or window sill. I like being stimulated ways that make me consider how I fit into the jigsaw puzzle of humanity.

Here’s the meat of it–a great interview / sparring with Brian Willaims:

Before going to the show, there were a number of uncertainties to which we did not have answers until after the show, so I thought I’d compile my notes:

• Reservations can be made through the Daily Show website.You can request to reserve up to four tickets.  For the July 20th show, we reserved on February 16th.
• Once you arrive at the studio, you get to wait in line on the sidewalk outside the theater, located here.  There’s a large awning to keep the sun off your back.  We arrived at 3pm and were 10th in line in what would be a line of about 200 people (I came a tad later after picking up Azuri falafel for everyone).  At 5:30pm (or sometimes 4:30), ushers handed out numbered cards that denote your place in line and whether you have a reserved seat or whether you’re standby.
• The line runs back and forth along the length of the building, about 200 people long.  If it grows longer, it curves around the the corner of the block and goes down 52nd st. The studio seemed to fit about 200 people (after VIP’s) so if you’re in line past the tensa-barriers you probably won’t get in.
• At 6:30pm, you enter the building, get security checked, metal detected.  You have to check your camera if you have one.  You can bring handbags and backpacks into the studio.  You can bring food in as well as long as you don’t take it out (and/or eat it).  I had a banana, falafel and vitamin water in my bag.
• By 7pm, you’re seated in the studio (which, like all TV studios, is much smaller in real life).
• A comedian comes out and warms up the audience for 10 minutes.
• Jon Stewart comes out before the show to say hi, crack some jokes and field questions.  One person’s question was, “Did you know your fly is down?”  Ha.  He was pretty embarrassed and said that in 10 years of the show he’d never left his fly down.
• The show is shot in the same timing as it airs and you’re done by 8pm.

Afterwards we went to Keen’s and indulged in filet mignon and lobster.  A fun fun evening.

After the show! Happy!