A Bug's Life

Hamsters using commercially produced nesting ball for intended purpose shock! It must be the end times.

On Friday I bought a hamster nest, a gerbil tube, a cat toy and some canary seed. The shop must have thought I was some sort of mad pet lady. I've experimented with putting ordinary hamster food and canary seed in the dwarf hamsters' bowl, and they do prefer the smaller stuff if the rate at which it gets hoovered up into cheek pouches is any indication!

ozymandias_cat has been pinning me to the bed for most of the morning, displaying his mightiness by having his ears on my ankles and his back feet on my hip bone.

It's Mothering Sunday on March 14th (in the UK) and I'd like to scan a load of the family photos I've got from the loft and put them on a memory stick for my Mum.

I can do a few HTML pages, a list of the photos with links, and a few album-style pages showing thematic groups of photos.

What I would like to have is a way she can view groups of photos in categories of her choosing, e.g. by a person's name. Is there a fairly simple way I can do this, or an existing app? She's Windows and on dial-up. If it's a slightly more complicated way, I could maybe do a release 2.0 for her birthday in June :-)

So - app? Database? Tags? Hand-built folders of shortcuts to images? Give each photograph a really descriptive filename? A simple HTML document with a lot of Next/Back buttons?

Cheers!