After seeing a slashdot comment, it really made me think... quite scary how society could easily become 1984.
Saturday, 25 February 2006
Feel that?
Did everyone feel the earthquake last night? We did. That was the first time that I have felt an earthquake and not thought that it was just a truck going by. It rumbled for a while. We heard it more than we felt it after the initial shake. Sorta cool and scarry at the same time.
Monday, 20 February 2006
The Great Digitization
Something that I wanted to do for a little bit is start to archive all my families photos. This isn't a small task, we're talking of 1000's of slides to start with, not including all the prints and negitives.
One solution is to get a bulk slide scanner, but I think that's a lot of money for something with a super specific task. As soon as I would finish, then scanner is going to be useless to me. So at this time I am leaning towards a flatbed scanner with a slide / negitive / print attachement. I figure that would be the best way to go.
Now I have to think about storage. I'm thinking of using RAID, but have no experience of this right now. So, the plan that's currently in my head is to either wipe my linux box and put WinXP on it or I can try and use linux to do the scanning. It's a little bit of an older computer and I would have to put in a USB 2 connection in it...
Why do I want to do this? Am I just nuts? That discussion aside, it's because I want to know who is in the pictures, and the only way to do that is ask the people who know while they are still around. Otherwise the pictures will just in some drawer or box not to be seen by anyone. If they are digitized in some way, then we can make DVD presentations, slide shows, ... just about anything.
I just feel like it's something more, something of a record of the journey our my families life rather than just the same old Birth Marriage Death (BMD) info. Either way, it's a big task and it's something that I'll start early. I just have to start with one single step... ;-)
One solution is to get a bulk slide scanner, but I think that's a lot of money for something with a super specific task. As soon as I would finish, then scanner is going to be useless to me. So at this time I am leaning towards a flatbed scanner with a slide / negitive / print attachement. I figure that would be the best way to go.
Now I have to think about storage. I'm thinking of using RAID, but have no experience of this right now. So, the plan that's currently in my head is to either wipe my linux box and put WinXP on it or I can try and use linux to do the scanning. It's a little bit of an older computer and I would have to put in a USB 2 connection in it...
Why do I want to do this? Am I just nuts? That discussion aside, it's because I want to know who is in the pictures, and the only way to do that is ask the people who know while they are still around. Otherwise the pictures will just in some drawer or box not to be seen by anyone. If they are digitized in some way, then we can make DVD presentations, slide shows, ... just about anything.
I just feel like it's something more, something of a record of the journey our my families life rather than just the same old Birth Marriage Death (BMD) info. Either way, it's a big task and it's something that I'll start early. I just have to start with one single step... ;-)
Saturday, 18 February 2006
Friday, 17 February 2006
Thursday, 16 February 2006
Helpful advice
Laughed when I read this guys advice on how to best manage code. Pretty funny. Almost as funny as the root question.
Warning One Three Three Four
I just wanted to pass along a warning to everyone. If you are buying a box set of dvd's or movies, check that it contains what it should. A couple of days ago I just bought the Firefly series (ya, only 1 season). It's a four disk set and I have disks 1, 3, 3, 4. No #2. I called BestBuy (where I bought it) and they don't have any more right now, I'll have to go to the other store. *sigh*. So if you can see what's in the box set, spend the extra 2 seconds to check.
The good and the bad
I just thought that this was funny:
the guardÌan of worlds vs the destroyer of worlds
It looks like the first link has now been changed to a "private" page. :-(
the guardÌan of worlds vs the destroyer of worlds
It looks like the first link has now been changed to a "private" page. :-(
Sunday, 12 February 2006
Uphill is harder than it looks
A couple of people invited us to go cross country skiing in gatineau park. I've just recently gotten skis. So this is the second time in 8 years (the other was a couple of weeks ago) that I have gone out skiing. We kept it to 10 km 'cause I didn't know if I could handle going 20. I probably could have, but it's best to "ease" into this kind of thing.
I took a couple of pictures, but it's hard to take pictures when you are trying to keep up with the group. If anyone is interested, we started from parking lot P16 where at the start there is "a bit of a hill". Holy freaking crap. The biggest hill I had x-country skied before that was the septic hill at my parents house. I was sliding backwards having a tough time. I got passed by a guy going up pulling his kid.
Anyways, after a while I figured out things better. I still was slipping a lot but it's all good. It's really nice there, but the 6 $ / person is a little high to be going all the time. Especially when we can just cross the street and ski along the rideau river. Not quite as nice, but the drive is shorter. ;-)
I took a couple of pictures, but it's hard to take pictures when you are trying to keep up with the group. If anyone is interested, we started from parking lot P16 where at the start there is "a bit of a hill". Holy freaking crap. The biggest hill I had x-country skied before that was the septic hill at my parents house. I was sliding backwards having a tough time. I got passed by a guy going up pulling his kid.
Anyways, after a while I figured out things better. I still was slipping a lot but it's all good. It's really nice there, but the 6 $ / person is a little high to be going all the time. Especially when we can just cross the street and ski along the rideau river. Not quite as nice, but the drive is shorter. ;-)
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