Infinite State

I recently switched on the new Picasa2 screensaver for Windows. I love it because I can point it to any album in Picasa, or any label — perfect for displaying random photos from a favorite set I’ve tagged already.

But here’s the bad news: Google logos start showing up at odd intervals, superimposed on your images. Not all the time, but not acceptable. As with all things Google, it’s a little awkward to complain about free wares, but I’m torn between having it do exactly what I want and not being able to find a way to stop that logo from displaying as well.

I haven’t decided whether to give it up yet, but I’m going to go looking for an alternative. Given that Picasa stores the album definitions in simple XML files in a known location, it shouldn’t be that hard to write something to read through them.

Although skeptical that I’ll find the time to do much writing, I’m excited to get a blog laid out again. So far, my experience with Dreamhost has been terrific. A few clicks, a credit card, and wham, it’s all working.

Makes me feel kinda old and cranky, actually.