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In another vain moment, I rechecked my PageRank at Google. I remembered it being 5/10. I was right. Take that, Mike and his rank of 6.

Edit: Doh. Higher is better. I’m a moron.

Because Mike wrote today about how his site is ranked 690,887 at Alexa, I had to find out what this site was ranked. Cue up “You’re so Vain” please.

Apparently, I’m much more popular than Mike, sitting pretty at 530,545.

Booya.

Heather noticed that I turned on several of the FeedFlare features for my RSS feed. I fall in love with FeedBurner more and more every day.

Email this
Send a link to your item to someone via email.

Email author
Allow subscribers to email you directly. (If there is no email address in your feed, this will be hidden.)

Technorati Cosmos
Display the number of links to your item from blogs, as measured by Technorati. (If there are no links, this will be hidden.)

Del.icio.us tags
Lists del.icio.us tags for an item. (If there are no tags, this will be hidden.)

Save to del.icio.us
Allows subscribers to bookmark the item with del.icio.us.

Count comments
Lists the number of comments posted to an item (for WordPress blogs only).

Creative Commons
Displays the Creative Commons license that you may have applied to your feed (or to individual content items).

I’ve turned them all on, save the Email Author feature, for obvious reasons. I may turn off the comment counter as I think it’ll cause NetNewsWire to register a change, and therefore mark it as new again. All this for free!

Tags: feedburner, feedflare

A couple weeks ago, Gallery 2 was released. I’ve been using Gallery as my photo gallery software on this site for a long time. I probably would use it a lot more if Flickr weren’t so addictive.

The problem is that Gallery is software and not a service. Therefore, I have to supply the storage space and bandwidth. I do have well over 5 GB of storage space and 120 GB of bandwidth at my disposal (thanks Dreamhost, which recently added unlimited domains to all their plans). I probably couldn’t consume that much space and bandwidth, but when I can upload up to 2 GB per month for $25 a year (note to web services: this is a good price point) and the photos can be dowloaded unlimited times, Flickr wins out.

That said, Gallery 2 is extremely slick. They’ve moved up to using a database backend instead of a patchwork system and the install process is like butter. It’s interface is also a lot friendlier to people that simply want to browse photos. Also compelling is that you can give accounts to people, allowing them to upload on their own. You don’t have to force them into getting a Flickr account (and then set up a group/use a common tag/some other kludgy solution).

I’m thinking about adding a gallery for readers to post pictures. Anyone have any other ideas?

I’d like to thank whoever bought Meet the Fockers, Pirates of Silicon Valley, and The Bourne Identity through my Amazon links. I really appreciate it. Hopefully this will be the start of a trend. Living in your own place is a little expensive.