Where Did My Pictures Go

In the ongoing saga of Zooomr, and their growing pains. . . some good news, and some bad news.

The good news is that my most recent photos are back online! They were moved from servers in Santa Clara, California to Tokyo, Japan, restored to Zooomr's Japanese servers, and accessible once again. Uploads have resumed too. w00t!

The bad news is that my recent, but not most recent photos, including blogged photos from late-September through mid-January, are now offline. Evidently the file backup program missed a whole bunch of pictures, and they were left in the California data center, which is now decommissioned. The Zooomr team is working on getting these moved by boat, or possibly by plane, to Japan pronto. wh00ps!

So at least for now you'll finally get to see the Winterplace ski trip pictures, plus whatever I shoot from now on. Hopefully, you've caught up on all of my old posts (yeah right) and seen all the mid-term blogged photos.

So if you need pictures to look at, you should visit Andy's Photo-a-Day project over at www.roth365.com every day.

A Shameless Plug

It's no secret that we take a lot of pictures. Many of the best, you've seen here, but there are plenty of others that you haven't seen because there's no room for them in the blog, or there isn't a relevant place to put them.

Enter Zooomr. Zooomr aspires to be the world's premier photo hosting site, and has become one of my favorite places on the Web. I've moved a bunch of our photos there, and plan on moving many more.

What's so great about Zooomr? You can tag your photos with any key words you choose, and that makes them easier to find by others. You can Geotag your photos so that they'll show up on a map of the world. You can "fave" photos you love, add friends, create smart sets, leave text or voice comments. I have 4GB of upload bandwith a month, and best of all. . . it's FREE.

So take the time to vist the TravelingRoth's Zooomr Photos:

http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/TravelingRoths

And just becuase I can, here are some of our newly added pictures

Ristorante Italia Hosted on Zooomr

Swiss Cheese Bus Hosted on Zooomr

Lake Geneva Panoramic Hosted on Zooomr

La Spezia, Cinque Terre Hosted on Zooomr