1984

After seeing a slashdot comment, it really made me think... quite scary how society could easily become 1984.

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.

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... ;-)

Nerd-fitti

A cool image. Found my the flickr interesting page (I just keep on hitting reload). ;-)

Zzzzz.....

This is something that I have long suspected: it's better to sleep on big decisions. ;-)

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.