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What's the oldest digital camera photo you have on your computer? When is it from? Let's see it!

Oldest Photo

This is the oldest photo on my Powerbook.  It is from September '99.  I was working at an economic development center while I was in high school, and we had just received a digital camera to photograph properties for the real estate portion of the business and to photograph events just in general for the business.  The red car had a remote car alarm, and as this guy was walking buy I set it off.  Cruel but funny.  He jumped and quickly walked away.  This photo is taken directly prealarm.

Hah.  Interesting that Friendster was given a patent on this during a time when so many new companies are popping up to focus on social networking, including Six Apart with VOX.  The patent just seems somewhat broad to me.

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And basically, yes, I'm just looking for things to post.  Heh.

I'm a huge fan of public APIs.  Look at how many places you see Amazon's web services API popup.  Delicious Monster wouldn't be half the application it is without being able to pull from Amazon's giant database.  VOX itself seems to pull from Amazon in a lot of cases.  A (small) standard for most blog technologies is to include the Blogger API for XML-RPC posting.  Anyone know if this exists for VOX?  Come on Web 2.0!