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This afternoon Monique, the kids and I went to my brother-in-laws book launch. We went to support him and his new book, but we also bought a few for Christmas presents and had him sign them.

His new book is called “Chronicle of our Time,” a photographic book based on events in Nova Scotia. This is Len’s second book in just over a year—last year Len released “Nova Scotia Landmarks: Portrait of a Province from the Air.”

The first book were aerial photographs of Nova Scotia—very well done. It was a bestseller at Chapters and of course, the local bookstores were selling them like crazy.

Len and his family stopped over after the launch and we all had some pizza and beer. It was a lot of fun.

Everywhere I look these days, it’s Flickr, Flickr, Flickr. Like the saying goes, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” so I did yesterday afternoon. I’m still not convinvced Flickr is any better for me than .Mac, but I’m sure there are a lot of people out there that can give me some opinions and examples on why it’s better.

I uploaded a couple of albums already to test out the interface. Overall, it’s pretty good—there are quite a few options and there is a whole community of people that you can make as contacts. I quickly found several people that I know to add as contacts.

I’m currently using a Flickr plugin for iPhoto, which seems to be the best upload/management interface I’ve found so far. The plugin doesn’t seem to be able to create an album for me, although it did upload pictures just fine if I didn’t choose to create a new album.

Shortly after signing up, a good friend got me upgraded to a Flickr Pro account (Thanks), which gives you a whole lot of extras—mostly lifting restrictions of the free account.

Like I said, I’m not totally convinced yet, but I’m going to give it a try and see what happens.