Google's gotten to be pretty well known for dropping/abandoning their more niche services in recent years, so I wasn't too surprised to find an email in my inbox telling me that something of theirs was going away. What that something is, this time around, is a thing called "Album Archives", which, I gather, is a part of the Google Photos service (whatever it was called back in the day, the old name escapes me) that got sliced off of the main service at some point. In my case, when I looked at what's currently stored there, it looks like its some mostly-older photos that I put in there specifically to display on this blog, without having to track down/shell out for someplace to host those photos online for me.
I could, of course, retrieve those photos, re-host them somewhere else, and hunt down and re-link them to their appropriate posts. Frankly, that sounds like a lot of work for not much gain. Besides, the current links on one of those ancient posts implies that the photo might have gotten hosted on Blogger proper automatically at some point in the past. So... if you look closely, some of the photos on this blog might disappear in about a month. Or, they might not. I guess we'll see.
Now, pardon me while I keep waiting for Starfield to drop in September.
