Months of Photo Indecision
I tend to post photos in grouped blocks as it has many advantages. It aids finding photos, makes it harder to keep posting the same subject and obviously it seems more organised. But sometimes you end up with left overs that don't fit in and as a result have a loose group associated to them instead. This happened recently and I ended up with photos from July to September.... and as it happens over that time I was changing the way I process photos. In reality I'm not 100% (...)
New NAS November
Before my storage needs exploded I used to have a server that was based on an old computer with a hard drive or two. But due to a combination of increasing photo/video file sizes and slower hard drive density the one or two drives soon became three or four, and the cases I used became a limitation. Thus in 2011 when my then server died without warning I bought my first computer intended for that purpose from the start.
Money was a bit tight at time so I got a machine (...)
Science of maintaining a healthy weight
What? Yeah. I can do any topic I want here.
Right now I'm away from home, mostly by myself, 'cos of work. For about 5 months. It's a while yeah, but I've been trying to take advantage of it all, and one of my major goals has been to learn more about what weight management techniques work for me ...and probably to a lesser extent you! Normally some aspects, such as meal replacement/modification/skipping, are a bit anti social as it would mean never eating with my family. But as I said (...)
An exercise in time management and priorities
Back in June I got back to this internet thing. I never really left, I just stopped making visible changes. So I stopped stopping. I had plans to get back to a rapid Beta release cycle so I could then finish this whole 1.9 thing started many moons ago. But due to many reasons, mostly website updates, photos and exercise, that has not happened. In reality, it's not going to happen now for several months as (...)
Not sure how I missed a whole protocol
iTimeSync has been a popular program all things considered, and unlike other popular programs it's one that has been used by me. It's been so long since I wrote it (2002) I can't even exactly remember why I even did. There's no useful comment in the ReadMe... and my motivations 20 years ago are a mystery in itself. Most likely I simply wanted a way to sync all my computers time and figured I might as well write it myself. It (...)
Sometimes you just need to LEGO of your account
Darn. Not how I feel but this is a public G rated blog.
Just discovered I've lost an important account on the interwebs. Had it for 15+ years. Hard to be sure exactly how long as I've lost the account. LEGO related, but I'm not trying publicly cause trouble so I'm not naming here, and it should be obvious in any case. Used for buying and selling, had a store where you listed all your wares and the price you expected, and it had a feedback number... so it's loss is really annoying. Can (...)
Point five
Was talking to someone about a movie and was confused to hear "too many point five shots". I asked and they described what they meant and I said "like a fish eye" and soon after I understood. 'cos of the "0.5" button on phones. Ahhhhh.....
Looking into this the term has been around for at least two years. Sigh.
5000 photos might be too much
My other major obsession is photography. It's why this site is a photo site with news and text features. But anyway I've fallen behind in some site stuff as I went to a Roller Derby and took 5000 photos. Which takes a long time to go through. I learnt a lot due to this so there's no real regrets, but yeah. One of the prices of using features like pre capture. But that's done and I'll be back on the case.
Very dead links
One of the links that I found was no longer valid went from a Software Association to some sort of sport network. Going by The Wayback Machine practically over night too. Weird... But I suppose that is where independent software developers are now. AI is probably going to make it all worse too. Which means it is time to make more software just the same!
Major site work
So yeah, the site needed a lot of work. Not as much as maintaining forums, not likely to go back down that path again... but things do change in the interwebs so there are still changes needed to keep things current. In addition there still were (and are to a limited extent) references to the forum, incorrect links, links to sites that no longer exist in the same form they were... Sigh. But almost done with that.
