I have the most amazing digital camera. I bought myself the Fuji Finepix S7000 for my birthday last summer and I'm constantly in awe of her. I love her for so many reasons.

When I pull her out of her case, I ALWAYS have oglers. Both novices and experts, alike, comment, "That's some camera!" I usually let them give it a whirl...then they are even more impressed.

She takes fantastic shots. Fantastic. And here is the clincher: I have no idea how to use all of the bells and whistles she comes with. Basically, my Fuji could be a point and shoot for all of the settings I use. I could be taking WAY better photos if I knew what the hell I was doing.

But here's the hard truth about having a great camera...I'm stuck in digital photo hell!

Yep. I probably have 10,000 digital photos, scattered everywhere on CD's, all over the place on my hard drive, some long lost...all these wonderful photos...perhaps never to be looked at again. After a while, they take up so much space on the hard drive that I have to put them on more CD's and even delete a bunch. It's so sad. What a waste of beautiful photographs.

And...yes...I've been using Flickr, although limitedly, because they only allow so much space (I'd exceed it after a weekend of shots) and because I still have to organize the damn things photo by photo (which I've established is not my strong suit). I the tagging, but even tagging takes time.

So, when I started chatting with Munjal, the CEO I'm joining in San Francisco to work with and he started talking about where I was about to work and what they were doing, I just about fell off of my chair.

Imagine this...taking those umpteen-gazillion digital photos over the years that you have, uploading them to an unlimited space and having the same program HELP you tag all of your photos...[I'll provide more details as I figure this stuff out]

droooooooool...

Munjal called it 'hacking' digital photos. Okay, so I'm no Ph.D. programming/engineering genius, but I do understand the significance of this kind of technology. I think the only issue in the blogosphere will be "are they for real?!!" I get to tinker with it in a couple of days. I've gathered all of my photo CDs and I'm SO ready. I'll be sure to update you here on what's going on.

This is my new job, eh? What a hoot!

As per my post on being HorsePigCow'd, holy crap! What's happening? The second coming must be about to take place. I bow down to the power of the blogosphere...

[thanks again Shel!]