a meta data system for images is finally being rolled out: images should now be followed by a relatively relevant description, and all photo pages will eventually have appropriate meta tags [keywords and descriptions].

this was a project some seven months in gestation, with the data extraction from almost a thousand static pages done in a weekend, thanks be to find, grep and sed.

this may even lead [one day, in the not-so-distant future] to reasonably accurate search results. possibly.

server crashed: account deleted, everything gone server-side. yaay.

fortunately most files and images were restored from backups: some however weren't, and so some files are out of date.

the primary loss are the .htaccess files, which weren't backed up and which will have to be recreated. there will be some settling in and the odd 404 error before everything's back to normal.