- Jul 11, 2001
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Before 9/11 when I had a steady-full-time onsite job, there was a guy in the company who I just DETESTED. He would always lean on me when there was any issue he couldn't handle, and they were many and usually stupid. What bugged me most is that he seemed oblivious to the fact that I detested him! 
But I did learn one thing from him. I visited him at his desk one day and was blown away by the beautiful pictures on his monitor. He emailed me the link to Webshots. I installed it on my machine. I installed it on my machine at home. It was free. It didn't have popups, IIRC, and I could download pictures or even sets of pictures to my heart's content. I think there was a policy that it would be free for life, again IIRC. There was a period where I would go home and nearly every night I would spend a 1/2 hour or more just downloading beautiful pictures, and I still have the collections. I got out of the habit entirely and didn't go to Webshots.com or have it loaded on my machines. I've started playing with it again and when I go to the site I get popups galore. I'm wondering if they've made partnerships with the Devil, err, spyware freaks. It keeps asking me to pay them money so I can get higher res pictures (1600 x 1200 instead of 800 x 600, which look fine to me). It also kicks me out after downloading a handful of pictures, the limit for the day, which they never used to have. What's the deal with Webshots?
But I did learn one thing from him. I visited him at his desk one day and was blown away by the beautiful pictures on his monitor. He emailed me the link to Webshots. I installed it on my machine. I installed it on my machine at home. It was free. It didn't have popups, IIRC, and I could download pictures or even sets of pictures to my heart's content. I think there was a policy that it would be free for life, again IIRC. There was a period where I would go home and nearly every night I would spend a 1/2 hour or more just downloading beautiful pictures, and I still have the collections. I got out of the habit entirely and didn't go to Webshots.com or have it loaded on my machines. I've started playing with it again and when I go to the site I get popups galore. I'm wondering if they've made partnerships with the Devil, err, spyware freaks. It keeps asking me to pay them money so I can get higher res pictures (1600 x 1200 instead of 800 x 600, which look fine to me). It also kicks me out after downloading a handful of pictures, the limit for the day, which they never used to have. What's the deal with Webshots?
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