_(Imagine the title sung like The Cure's "The Caterpillar")_ I've been so impressed with the "Flickr":http://flickr.com/ photo service that I plunked down some money to open a Pro account there last week. It finally got turned on earlier this week, which has let me upload some of my backlog of "photos":http://feralboy.com/photoalbum/ to my "new photo page":http://www.flickr.com/photos/feralboy/. It's a great application, even with just the free account. I'm trying to get "Paul and April":http://apadventures.net/ to get an account as well to put up all those fabulous climbing shots; and with all the neat tagging and Set features, we could have everything totally organized and searchable. Wanna find all the pictures of April at Hueco? "No problem":http://www.flickr.com/photos/feralboy/search/tags:april,huecotanks/tagmode:all/. Want to get an RSS feed of all photos tagged "boobs"? "Knock yourself out":http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=boobs&format=atom_03.

I think I convinced my dad (who "visited":http://www.flickr.com/photos/feralboy/tags/dad/ this past weekend) to open an account, and I'll get him a Pro account for a belated Xmas present, and I might do the same for some "certain roomies":http://apadventures.net/ if they want to open an account too. ;-)

"Robin":http://firepile.com/robin/ has also opened an account, and has started "putting up pictures":http://www.flickr.com/photos/firepile/ too, mostly of "her cats":http://www.flickr.com/photos/firepile/tags/cat/. I like that you can go in and put "annotations":http://www.flickr.com/photos/firepile/5304138/ on people's pictures (if they let you)... sort of adds to the whole community feeling, as well as all the "photo groups":http://www.flickr.com/groups/rockclimbing/.

Sites like "Flickr":http://flickr.com/ and "Google Maps":http://maps.google.com/ make me think that innovation on teh Intarweb isn't quite dead yet.