As I was uploading the newest batch of photos, covering almost two weeks' worth of picture-taking, I was struck by competing desires to, on the one hand, put up all the cute or interesting photos, and on the other hand keep things (relatively) small. Some people probably just want to see a couple of photos of Dorothy. But her grandparents want to see everything we've got, and then some. So I try to compromise.
For those who are keeping score at home, we currently have 672 pictures online in the gallery, almost all of which are of Dorothy. Offline, we have over 2,200 pictures total, taking up around 1.5GB of disk space. And she's barely four and a half months old!!
Posted by Tom Nugent at July 19, 2004 09:57 PMDoing the math....that means by age 18, you will have 81 Gb of images (assuming that you haven't gone to video by then....which I have to think will come soon...the memory could grow closer to an exponential model)....and you will have 36,288 photos (I'm assuming that this will be fairly steady until prom season in 2022).....of course once the serious dating, the sorority trips to Aspen and college years start......the sky's the limit!
This also assumes that Dorothy remains an only child.....these figures roughly double if another child arrives.
Of course...during the teen years, she may rebel, and flat out refuse to pose for pictures.....just a view of a spiked pink-haired-black-outfitted person running out the door and jumping on the back of a Harley...fortunately, that should make the amount of space available for photos stretch until at least the early college years....
......just thought I would let you know, in case you need a bigger server or something...you can plan now.
Posted by: Smart-alec Tom at July 20, 2004 01:33 AM