Hyde St. Pier is actually part of San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. The highlights for me:

• Enough for locals to see, if you like looking at beaches and boats and national historical park kinds of stuff.
• Enough for tourists to see (it’s very close to Ghirardelli Square).
• Not as crowded as Fisherman’s Wharf.

In unrelated news, I’m migrating my photos over to use Gallery. I’m not very happy about it, but I think it’s inevitable. The main reason for going to Gallery is that I want to get some kind of commenting system in place for the photos. But everything else that made me like QuickyPix still makes me sad:

• Gallery: 1810 files, 307599 lines of PHP and “smarty” template code. QuickyPix: 10 files, 2500 lines of Python.
• Database backend is required for Gallery, but that’s not a big deal since I’m running WordPress anyway.
• Gallery themeing looks like it will be a huge pain. I’m already thinking I’m giving up on getting the photos to look integrated with the rest of the website.

On the other hand, I gain:

• Comments.
• Lots of other nice little features that I don’t necessarily care about that much, but are neat: random rotating photo, and a few WordPress-related plugins that I might check out someday (I’m pessimistic about my prospects here).
• Addressability of single photos: individual photos can be linked to; my QuickyPix setup only allowed addressability of whole albums.