Many things
Jun. 28th, 2005 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieArrrrrggghhh. Never use a program called Photo Site Time Saviour, 'cause it'll delete all your pictures if you're not uber-careful. I still have all my original, huge, non-cropped-and-pretty photos from this year, but the ones I worked on? Gone. Most of them are up at various spots online, which is a Good Thing, but the 200 from June I just completed have gone poof, and now I need to do them all again. ARGH. *headdesk*
*headdesks again, 'cause ARGH*
Given the issues with this, with two other put-in-photos-spit-out-an-HTML-page-for-lazy-people programs, and two install-thngs-on-your-server PHP programs (nothing works! Ever!), I quit. I saw the sign, and it opened up my mind and all that (and now that song is stuck in my head. Fantastic.), and I'm just gonna keep on using MyPhotoAlbum. It's kind of slow, and it's on someone else's server, but that's okay. At least it doesn't eat pictures or give me parse/mySQL/every other possible kind of error.
*hates computers at the moment*
Right. So, pictures from June coming in...July. Perhaps August. At least this happened over the summer and not during the school year...
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Now, more gleeee!ful news.
I got my first NetFlix DVDs! We joined for the summer, mostly so that I can watch stuff like Carnivale and Dead Like Me. (Well, I assume I'll like DLM, since it's basically Wonderfalls with a dead girl. The first disc of S1 should come as soon as I return one of the two I just got.)
In other TV squee, there's a chain reaction (does Skiffy still use this term?) of the entirety of BSG season one starting at 10 AM/9 Central on July 6th. Woo-hoo! That's marked all prominent on my calendar. And probably it should be on my VCR, too, as the odds of me sitting through thirteen hours of TV in one go are not good.
More to squee about: this camera. I apparently had rather a lot of birthday and Christmas money squirrelled away all over my room, and it all adds together to give me more than enough to buy a new digital camera. (My current one doesn't have anything wrong with it and takes lovely pictures in daylight, it's just that the only manual features on it are changing white balance and the digital equivalent of film speed. Useful, and yet it takes terrible shots in low light, which is mostly what I'll have next year, I imagine.) In second place is this Canon, which is nifty and has a megapixel more, but the Olympus is a nicer camera overall--the 10x optical zoom is just the beginning of the awesome features--even with the reduced resolution (which is still more than I have at the moment, so hey).
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Totally random stuff about being back in the US of A:
- It is SO NICE to not have to light the stove and oven with a match. So. Nice. I've never valued electricity more.
- Jones Soda Company's Black Cherry Sugar-Free Soda is a thing of beauty. Mmmmm.
- One good thing about never having a thunderstorm in Exeter was that I also never had to shut my computer down while said thunderstorm raged above. For normal people, this wouldn't be remarkable, but when you're an addict like me, well...
*headdesks again, 'cause ARGH*
Given the issues with this, with two other put-in-photos-spit-out-an-HTML-page-for-lazy-people programs, and two install-thngs-on-your-server PHP programs (nothing works! Ever!), I quit. I saw the sign, and it opened up my mind and all that (and now that song is stuck in my head. Fantastic.), and I'm just gonna keep on using MyPhotoAlbum. It's kind of slow, and it's on someone else's server, but that's okay. At least it doesn't eat pictures or give me parse/mySQL/every other possible kind of error.
*hates computers at the moment*
Right. So, pictures from June coming in...July. Perhaps August. At least this happened over the summer and not during the school year...
*
Now, more gleeee!ful news.
I got my first NetFlix DVDs! We joined for the summer, mostly so that I can watch stuff like Carnivale and Dead Like Me. (Well, I assume I'll like DLM, since it's basically Wonderfalls with a dead girl. The first disc of S1 should come as soon as I return one of the two I just got.)
In other TV squee, there's a chain reaction (does Skiffy still use this term?) of the entirety of BSG season one starting at 10 AM/9 Central on July 6th. Woo-hoo! That's marked all prominent on my calendar. And probably it should be on my VCR, too, as the odds of me sitting through thirteen hours of TV in one go are not good.
More to squee about: this camera. I apparently had rather a lot of birthday and Christmas money squirrelled away all over my room, and it all adds together to give me more than enough to buy a new digital camera. (My current one doesn't have anything wrong with it and takes lovely pictures in daylight, it's just that the only manual features on it are changing white balance and the digital equivalent of film speed. Useful, and yet it takes terrible shots in low light, which is mostly what I'll have next year, I imagine.) In second place is this Canon, which is nifty and has a megapixel more, but the Olympus is a nicer camera overall--the 10x optical zoom is just the beginning of the awesome features--even with the reduced resolution (which is still more than I have at the moment, so hey).
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Totally random stuff about being back in the US of A:
- It is SO NICE to not have to light the stove and oven with a match. So. Nice. I've never valued electricity more.
- Jones Soda Company's Black Cherry Sugar-Free Soda is a thing of beauty. Mmmmm.
- One good thing about never having a thunderstorm in Exeter was that I also never had to shut my computer down while said thunderstorm raged above. For normal people, this wouldn't be remarkable, but when you're an addict like me, well...
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Date: 2005-06-29 10:55 pm (UTC)My mother just informed me that her camera, which uses the 4 AAs but has an electronic viewfinder, which is what the C-765 has that draws power so badly, require battery changes all the time. Downside, but not a complete dealbreaker, as these battery packs are relatively cheap (there are some online for as low as $15). So it's not the style of battery that's the problem, but rather of viewfinder.
One of the best things about an Olympus is that they take the same cards as my Fuji. And as I have 3 256 MB cards, plus assorted ones of lower MB, well, yeah. To say that would be a plus would be understating things a bit.
And, personally, I swear by Olympus. Their cameras have served both me and Natalie well.
My mom had an Olympus digicam she really loved, and I remember us having quite a few of their film cameras in the house before we all switched to digital. I'm prepared to love this one. :)