Lots of work wrapping up. Office floor, kitchen floor, moldings and such. Loose ends all over but getting closer to complete at this point.
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Time for a new scanner…
My good old canonscan 8800 has started putting color streaks in the middle of the dark parts of images
The platen is clean enough (not that platen state should matter for this) and I ran this several times at different resolutions and get the same artifact in the same place. I can imagine this could be a calibration target issue or a sensor aging issue, but either way I’m not inclined to try to dig it out.
I just ordered an Epson Perfection V600 which looks like a good step up and at a reasonable price. I’m going to be doing a good bit of imaging in the near future as I build out the site here and do some home sandbox work so I want a reliable and high quality scanner.
UPS Crushes it from Amazon…
I got one of the more interesting Amazon shipments yesterday. The contents were tool steel countersink bits so (fortunately) they came through ok but…
Weekend of photography of board games and RPGs
I’m continuing to put together images to use on the site(s) here. This weekend it was role playing games and war games. I’ve added a few shelves of science fiction and fantasy books that were taken last weekend to the headers here earlier in the weekend. Continue reading Weekend of photography of board games and RPGs
Monday, July 18, 2016
Busy weekend doing fun stuff. Didn’t get as much work done on the site or photo backlog as I had been hoping. Saw friends, went places and generally had a good weekend… Continue reading Monday, July 18, 2016
Long weekend, some progress…
…I spent about half of the available time over the weekend post processing and triaging photos from our April 2015 trip to support Lorna’s summer scrapbooking activities.
On the technical side, I got XAMPP fully installed and configured on my Ubuntu linux box and pulled a complete snapshot of my web hosting over and loaded it up. the database loads were completed without a hitch and the file transfers completed with a few stalls using <code>wget -m</code>.
As of this morning, I have a fully functional mirror of all of the content on my blog up and running. I need to burn the tarball to a blue-ray disk (around 9GB so DVD won’t hack it) tonight. The site does seem to know that it lives at ninecrows.com because any link on the mirror transfers directly to my real site. Got to figure out where that’s stored and fix it as the next step.
Once that’s done I can move on to testing out mod-rewrite rules for redirecting the landing spot to my landing area wordpress instance so that I can point people to http://ninecrows.com rather than one of the specific blogs. Looks a bit messy and likely somewhat finicky in exact configuration, but shouldn’t be hard to get right using my local mirror.
June 30, 2016
The craziness continues. I’ve done a few, mostly cosmetic updates to my career (technical stuff) blog.
Backups seem to be working properly but I have not had a chance to try setting up a free standing wordpress and restoring the results to verify that they round-trip cleanly.
I really need to send email to the folks we met on the cruise to let them know that at least one batch of shots has been posted here from Guernsey.
I still owe Jen the balance of the ‘how this blog got set up’ articles. I’m going to aim to get those written and published by the end of the coming long weekend.
Getting to the next day’s worth of cruise photos is going to be challenging. I’ve got a number of technical issues to get straightened out, I need to get Lorna more shots from April 2015 for her longer scrapbooking camp. There are other issues hovering around as well. I’ll do what I can as I really do want to share these. Stay tuned.
I want to write up my thoughts on the various craziness going on in the world out there. Seems like the events go by much faster than I can comment so we’ll have to see.
Crazy last few days…
Last week I dug through the backlog from being away for an extended stretch (I think this cruise was the longest vacation I’ve had since I started working).
I expedited the post processing of the shots from our last excursion at Guernsey to get them up on the site.
At this point I’ve got some post-processing to do on last April’s Disney trip shots for Lorna’s scrap-booking over the next few weeks so the next block of shots may be a little bit delayed (I can drop some nice shots from the Disney parks in Orlando in the interim).
Home again…
We got home last night at about 10 PM. The trip back was a bit stressful, messy and unexpectedly expensive, but in the end everything worked out and we’re here in Hudson, NH with all of our stuff and relatively well rested. The economy plus makes a huge difference to the flight (given the six plus hour transit time).
I’m in the process of unpacking, checking for any last images on camera chips and such and getting the LightRoom database connected to my desktop system here with the good monitors (my current laptop stinks for viewing images). I expect to get a few interesting shots up today or tomorrow with a continuing series from throughout the trip as time permits. I’m going to try to keep putting a few up day on day if I can.
Lots to do, lots to catch up on and a bunch of technical bits that I need to dig deeper into. I was reading the OpenGL 3D documentation on the flight home and I really want to try some things with that API before Monday.
Keep in mind that the blog entries since the first were written on my phone to capture my thoughts in the moment and are a bit rough and spotty.
Going to avoid British Air
In the future.
We moved our flight by one day and changed to economy plus two weeks ago. At that time, the agent told us that everythung was set.
Surprise at heathrow, after several lines and two hours on our feet we are informed that it will cost us 1000 pounds and we likely still have to wait in another line to check our bags
Since the change was already made weeks ago, it would actually cost us more to change back to economy…
And now it has taken at least half an hour to get permission to check our bags a bit early. We may very well be standing here when the bag check window for our flight actually opens in anothet 45 minutes. Wow…I have seldom seen this level of confusion and inefficiency!