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Maryke turned 5 in April and I am just now getting to putting these pics on the web. There are some pretty funny ones, so hope you like the slideshow.

I got a message in my email today saying that my web site account is approaching the disk space limit, meaning that we are almost to the 200 MB mark. I am a little concerned about this because I am going to have to delete some files in the near future. I really don’t want to remove photos from the EkFamily.Net Photo Gallery, but I may have to. The Photo Gallery is the only good thing about the website (for anybody but me) and it would be a shame to have to remove any photos that have been posted. The problem is that pictures are really the biggest files that are on the site, and there are lots of them.

I have recently been experementing with various FREE online photo services… basically sites where you can upload your photos and they will host them for free. There are a few of them but the biggest players that I have looked at are Google’s Picasa Web Albums and Yahoo’s Flickr. Both provide about 200 MB of space for photos and they have really good managment tools for uploading and editing photos (although they approach photo management very differently).

Anyway, just as a test, I wanted to see how this Picasa slideshow works. I will be fidding around with the photo gallery this summer, so if things start to change, don’t be surprised. The slideshow is of Meredith’s trip this last summer to South Carolina when David and Ashley had their wedding reception (and also of muscle-man). Note that if you click on the slideshow it will take you to the photo album with the full-sized pics (you may have to disable popup blocking?).

Anyway, if anybody has any other ideas or feedback, shoot me a note. Or I guess you could also leave a comment here on this post… now that would be a first.