Our digital scrapbook
“What’s the deal with taking all the pics of food on plates?” asked my sister-in-law Sue via a Facebook message.
I teased her, keying in on the word “plate” and responded “You’d rather see food on the table or floor, rather than on plates? Do you just use plate to eat off when company comes over? You do, don’t you. You eat right out of the pots and pans, don’t you?”
I’m am writing this post to answer the question “why am I posting all those food pictures online.” The answer is simple: Judy did it, not me. Well, she posted the two pictures that caused Sue to ask the question.
The deeper answer is that it’s part of our digital scrapbook.
We’ve used Degutis.com over the last 10 years to share things with family and friends. Usually it was too much work to update via the old publishing method. About three or four years ago, maybe longer, I added a Wiki to our website. That made it a little easier to make quick updates to the website. Today the main purpose of the Wiki is the gift wish list pages where family and friends can get gift ideas for holiday grab bags, birthdays, etc. (If you are reading this you must be a friend so take a moment and check out my gift list.)
About a year ago I changed Degutis.com to be a WordPress-based blog, making it extremely simple to post new updates. Now the website gets updated more frequently than ever, even if we don’t post anything for two or three months at a time. When time permits and I have something I want to ramble about I’ll throw together a quick blog post. Sometimes it’s just a quick photo, video, product commentary, or mabye even something from my youth. The left sidebar includes recent pictures (and a link to) our Flickr photos. The right sidebar has my Twitter feed.
In essence, all of this is our digital scrapbook.
Sue, that’s why we post “all the pics of food on plates” online.
Posted by Al Degutis
