5 posts tagged “computer”

I have had my camera for a little over two years now. In that time, despite going through periods of neglecting it, I have still managed to amass over 7,000 photos. This does not include pictures of family or anything. These are just my photographic dabblings. Many are attributable to my trial and error style of shooting (Take a picture, see that it didn't come out just right, adjust something, take another). And if I don't delete something right away, I don't delete it. Needless to say that my hard drive is already pretty full. So I have been working on the task of sorting, tagging and deleting (or rather setting aside to be deleted after I burn them to disk - just in case I change my mind) all 7,000 said photos. ...I'll be at this a while.

What is intriguing me while I go through this process is that it is very easy for me to see how my skills have improved. Especially when going through the photos from the first month or so after getting the camera. Of course the images were bound to improve as I got better at handling the camera's controls, but I also found that the pictures I liked and was proud of at the time, I now think are quite dull. I can't figure out why I liked some of them so much. Then there are others I didn't care about, but now, due to the fact that I am also getting better at photoshop, I can see potential in them that I didn't catch before. So I guess my biggest improvement is not so much technically (or not at all technically, truth be told) but rather in my artistic vision. And that makes me happy, because the primary reason I always liked photography was that I wanted to create art, but can't draw. It's nice to find that there is way, albeit entirely subjective, to measure my progress to this end. ...Now which of my current photos will I think are dull two years from now?... ~__^

While I have not really named an inanimate object since my car in high school (Winston, in honour of that fabulous high school), I have come to the realisation that, though unintentional, my computer's name is Shwartz McFly. This is because practically every time I try to use it it gets really slow or worse, completely unresponsive. Web pages load like dial up, text will sometimes take 30 seconds or more to appear (making it ever more difficult to catch typos, about which I am really anal), and quite often I click a button, or go to move the cursor in a text box, and nothing happens, leaving me to wonder if the click registered, so I click again, and... well it's a mess. And that's just the average. There are times when it is much worse!

Anyway, when it is slow, but working, I chant to it, "Come on Shwartz, come on Shwartz!" (Spaceballs) And when it is unresponsive I find myself saying, "Hello McFly!" (Back to the Future) So considering the frequency with which I utter these things to my VERY inanimate computer, I realise that, like it or not, this computer's name is Shwartz McFly.

And all I can say is Thank You Thank You Thank You Dad for helping me put Shwartz here into early retirement! After next week it will not need to do anything but hold the occasional online css or photoshop tutorial page for me while a shiny new desktop helps me do things this McFly could never dream of! And I'll probably be able to run a second program, like play music, while doing it! I can't even imagine what it will be like to use computer programs in real time.... It's like a dream!

love-love. Lindsay

How totally cool is this?! I've known about the springwidgets for some time, but could never get them to recognise multiple feeds. Well, I finally figured it out. Or they changed something. No, actually what really happened is they did change something, but it still took me all night to get it to work right. They put in an 'add' button for adding the extra feeds, but the feeds wouldn't take. Then I finally read the fine print and saw that you are supposed to make sure there are no extra spaces, but the add button was putting in spaces. So I took them out and, HURRAH! Then I couldn't get my lesser used feeds to work until I burned them on feedburner like the rest. But no matter, I got it now.

And it's so cool! If anyone wants to stalk me (and you know who you are) they can find all my stuff in one little spot. (Except youtube. It's a shame there is no feed there.) So here's my awesome new widget:

It's also a shame that it doesn't look good in our skinny vox sidebar. Guess I'll have to shop around for that. But in the meantime it's perfect for MySpace, I suppose. ^__^ Myspace and stalkers.

[Why is she talking about going over to vox on vox? The answer is simple, my friend. I have imported this post from blogger. Watch for the tag: lindsayerika.blogspot.com I do know where I am, really.]

I fell down the rabbit hole of the infinite universe of the internet, and no sooner than I had realised I was fast on my way to being everywhere, I am suddenly nowhere. I write to you now, once again as of old: from someone else's wireless internet connection. For my free ride is gone.

Timing always stinks in these things. A good thing will last just until you can't live without it, then 'poof!' you're on your own. My brand new blog already condemned to neglect, and my newer site shunned before I've even had the chance to speak of it. For shame.

With luck (and money) I will hopefully only be dark for a few days or less. But, alas, those are the difficult things to come by.

In my previous post I wanted badly to play a song for you. After digging for a short time on the infinite internet, I found that someone had indeed uploaded the very song, and I linked to it. But by the following morning I decided that was no good. Why should I link to the page of some girl I don't know? And so I took a coffee break. I mean, that was how I came to Vox. That is to say, Vox is another blog site that allows you to upload music and share other fun things besides writing posts. I'll still be using this blog, but now I have a coffee break too. (You can also find it with the link to the right that says "my favourites on vox.")

So I can photoblog, and now I can musicblog as well as, um, blog-blog. That is, when I can get online. I had just managed to upload some of my favourite music before my net collapsed, and I got a few more tonight, so you can still have plenty of fun there even now.

But first, before I go, I will show you the cool place to start. This is Skeet, and I am so happy that now anyone who wants can hear him sing.

love-love. Lindsay

It finally happened. I didn't think it could happen to me. It crept upon my being so carefully, quietly, yet today I discovered that I have joined the millions who have become dependent on their internet connections. I was in denial, but today I had no choice but to face the truth. I ventured out of the house to a coffee shop to make use of their free wi-fi connection and get a change of pace from the ONE chair I have in my house. Lo and behold, their wireless wasn't working! Or wasn't it? My network icon said I was connected with excellent strength, but that little firey fox couldn't sniff out a single thing.
What was going on? I panicked. "I just spent five dollars on your coffee and croissant so I could sit here and not take advantage of you! But now there is no internet. And I can't try somewhere else because I just had coffee, and more importantly, already spent money for an internet connection when I had one at home."

Lindsay, Lindsay, what's the matter? It was coffee! Your love, your passion! (I didn't go to starbucks, ya know, I went to a place that makes COFFEE) But somehow, all I could think of was that darned lack of connection, and the fact I coulda saved money and drank the coffee at home (which isn't necessarily true anyway, as I'm almost out).

*sigh* what am I coming to? Used to be the coffee shop wi-fi was all I had (ah, sweet Muddy's, you served me well). But alas! now I need it all the time. When did the internet become more important than a good cup of coffee?