Something had to give. When I originally started working on the website, Hovenkotter.net, it was a lot of fun building it and hosting it myself. After a while, it became a major pain in the butt and you may have noticed some serious lag time between updates.
First of all, resizing all of the images took quite a bit of time, though this was improved once I started using Photoshop batch operations. Both the photo album organizer and the blog required me to write a fair amount of XML by hand. I thought of ways I could automate some of the mundane activies, but it would require some up front work, and I wasn't all that motivated.
Then someone introduced me to Flickr (the 'e' is left out intentionally) and I immediately thought, "what am I doing spending all of this time maintaining my own site when I could use something that is obviously far superior to anything I could develop." Now it is really easy to upload pictures as soon as I pull them from my camera, so I plan on updating my Flickr site several times a month.
If I'm going to let another service do the heavy lifting for my pictures, then it made sense to offload the blog to a third-party service as well, which is where you are now. Blogger is a service owned by Google, and again is much better than anything I could come up within a reasonable timeframe. You'll notice that all of the pictures incorporated with this blog link to Flickr.
I have to admit that it is a tiny infliction to my ego that my once glorious (at least I though so) website is now being pulled apart into third-party services, but this will allow me to spend more time with Becky and Kyla... and maybe on some other hobbies as well ;)
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