I admitted to my parents during my recent visit that, aside from images appearing on xenogere unseen, I intentionally degrade the quality of photos posted on my blog.

The reason seemed justifiable: Disable the ability of anyone save me to utilize the pictures for anything, including printing.

But I realize now that I can still do that without causing the more significant loss in quality that stems from compressing them as well (something that long ago became habit when I hosted all of my own photos and videos).

While I doubt I’ll go back and update all previous images, I can say without hesitation that I will no longer devastate presentation quality in the name of copyright enforcement and cost savings.  It’s unnecessary.

Also, please pardon my lack of activity over the past several days.  As I told Jenny today at work, I started a project of updating and patching all of my home computers.

That became drastically complicated.  Before I knew it, all of the computers found themselves in a constant state of installing and rebooting, followed by more of the same, and not just for OS and application patching.  It became a quest to update, replace, reconfigure and manhandle just about everything I set my eyes upon.

Oops.