Converted my first cassette to CD last night on my new Tascam CC-222. Totally great: this unit is a dream to use and the results were fantastic. I only converted one hour, though, of about nine hundred hours of stuff. The road is long.

I signed up for Amazon's S3 during lunch so I'll have a cheap place to dump this stuff as time goes on. It's all my old radio shows.

I'm doing a kind of load test with Gallery's Java applet and Safari: upload 12,000 photos. The applet's interface froze around 3,347 photos but the uploading continues. Gallery continues to do just fine though, and that's amazing because all those photos are stored as a pickled array of AlbumItem objects.

OK, this is really freaky: the applet interface just unfroze after more than half an hour of nothingness.

So I have a lot to think about: I have maybe a thousand hours of radio shows, tens of thousands of photographs and maybe a lot of scans to store online. I need a way not just to distribute it, but a way to let people help annotate everything; a lot of the radio shows lack dates on them. A lot of the photos have no dates, or I've forgotten who the band is or who the people are. The collective memory of everyone involved can be facilitated with a Web site that's built the right way. I wonder if anyone else has tackled this idea.