Excessive indeed.  Like 7,607 excessive.  But, done nonetheless.

If you were to ask me how I spent this lovely Michigan summer Sunday afternoon, I would reply, “eating and programming.”

I did something I’ve wanted to do for years, which is build an RSS script for my photo database on this site.  As of today, there are 7,607 trivial, ridiculous, unnecessary, and embarrassing photos on this web server, less than 10% of which have actually been discussed in this blog and featured in the Photos menu above. The rest are simply… excessive.

But, they are there all the same, placed slightly out of the way so as to not draw too much attention to themselves.  They are available with a little poking around, but not paraded out on display in the prominent links above.

In looking at the server logs, though, it is apparent that some people seek them out on occasion, to see what drivel has been uploaded in recent days.

Actually, they serve more as a depository for family photo albums, and are usually shared just among close friends.  But regardless, it was silly there was no RSS feed (what is RSS?) for the constant stream of photos that eventually find their way home to this little site.

So today, partly to satisfy my once-every-six-months programming urge, I happily went about the task to design the feed that pulls from my hack database an RSS-compatible xml page that should be accessible by most blog reading programs. I’ll unabashedly admit I’m proud of the small achievement.

You will find this feed on the RSS page (linked from the blog menu above).  Note that this new feed does not in any way replace the content already available in the Photos and Travels feed category.  It merely sends out updates of literally every single photo gallery that is uploaded to this site, whether it is compelling enough to blog about or not.  And there are quite a number of them.

So, this should satisfy a couple of you, and even if it doesn’t, it satisfies me.  So there.

Cheers.