{"id":9544,"date":"2005-10-08T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2005-10-08T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T14:12:07","slug":"on-spending-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/08\/on-spending-money\/","title":{"rendered":"On spending money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My Linux Weekly News<\/a> expires in a couple of days. I’ve been supporting the publication for the last two or three years and I still find it to be a great source of good journalism. But I realized that I haven’t been using it that much in a last year. Sometimes it were weeks between my visits to LWN. It just doesn’t matter that much to me anymore. And I think this is a good reason to stop renewing my account.<\/p>\n

With all those extra money I feel like I have to find a new place to spend them. The problem is that I don’t use that many web services anymore. <\/p>\n

Most of the stuff I do on the web is connected to my site in this or that way. So I was considering donating to WordPress<\/a> at first. But they say that time is the best thing I can give to them, not money. And I do promote WordPress as much as I can both on this website and when I talk to people.<\/p>\n

Than I thought about Gallery<\/a>. But I figured that I am not that happy with it yet and I’ve only just started using it. I am not sure yet that I will stay with it for a long time.<\/p>\n

By this time, I was practically out of alternatives. And than it hit me – Flickr<\/a>. I don’t use it much yet, but it bugs me all the time. Flickr<\/a> is an excellent service and I want to find the way to use it. And maybe I will. Currently, I am just backing up some of the most important images there, but I think it’s that monthly bandwidth limitation that stops me from working with it seriously.<\/p>\n

Another point that made me consider Flickr<\/a> more than anything else is that by paying them money, I won’t be just donating. I will get a FlickrPro account that will increase the monthly bandwidth limit from 20 MBytes to 2 GBytes and provide me with a bunch of other useful functionality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I haven’t yet made my mind though. I am still thinking about it. If you have any suggestions on which other services or product I might be interested in, let me know.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

My Linux Weekly News expires in a couple of days. I’ve been supporting the publication for the last two or three years and I still find it to be a great source of good journalism. But I realized that I haven’t been using it that much in a last year. 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