Last week (or was it this week, time flies, you see) Tom wrote about: Supernova ’05: “Apps. for a Mobile, Connected World”, in which he noted Mena– of Six Apart fame – talking about memories,
Mena really brought memories to the fore. She stated that she wished she had a record of everything that had happened in the first twenty-seven years of her life, like she has since she first started weblogging
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Occasionally, I realise that this site has a similar effect on me. I wonder how much more I will recall of the turn of the century than I will of my years at the end of the last century simply because of this site? The On This Day link for 26 June sent me back to watching the Olympic Torch cross south London on its way to Athens. I’d totally forgotten that. What’s more, I don’t recall Flickr’s pictures, so I haven’t seen them in a long time; I’m not too sure where I filed them. Flickr needs an On This Day app so you can see pictures taken on this day in history. It would really help the memory!
And while I am on the subject of Flickr, does anybody else find it annoying that the default sort and ordering is by upload date rather than by taken? You often upload when you get back from a trip, like I did last Monday after my trip to Zaragoza. All the pictures had the correct timestamps, but they were uploaded in a slightly different order, so I had to adjust them to display correctly. Am I missing something?