Not long ago, I decided to stop using Flickr. Besides willing to try the new Picasa web service, I had another big reason to move away from it.

There’s a saying in Spanish:

“Nunca digas ‘De esa agua no beberé’, porque en ella te ahogas”

It means: “Never say ‘I will not drink that water’, because you’ll drown in it”.

I am not drowning, but after giving Picasa a try I know now that Flickr is more convenient.

Flickr let’s you browse other users’ photos (as long as they are public, most of them are), and it doesn’t require you to have an account with them to do so, granted: the photos have to be public in order to be accessed without an account, but at least it gives you the option to do this.

I’ve always enjoyed going though many photos from others… there are so many cool photos out there… and they are open to everyone. Why couldn’t Google and Picasa do something like that? Why do I have to force my friends and family to sign up when I want to share one or two photos?

So… there you go.

I bit my tongue, but this made me put both to the test: Flickr won.

• Became expecting parents of a baby boy… he will get here around mid-February, 2007 =)
• Became a U.S. Citizen. =)
• Copper passed away. =(
• Started using Wordpress… migrated from Blogger.
• After 3 years of invaluable savings on International long distance, I stopped using Vonage… cell phones got cheap-er.
• Jumped into the Intel-based Mac bandwagon.
• Watched tons of Soccer…
• Then I watched more, and more… confirming again how cool Soccer is!
• Completely ditched my home PC, for a Mac Pro. Now it is an all-Mac household.
• Released a humongous project at work.
• Realized how fast this year went by.

Happy Holidays, and I wish you all the best for 2007.