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Games

Yesterday I spent the day burning CDs of my photos on my Windows machine, in preparation of reformatting the hard drive and givng the computer to my roommate. I ended up offloading over ten gigs of photos, which is a lot of pictures. I imagine I should have been backing all the work up to […]

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Just Shelley Photography

In Memoria

I had finally gone through all of Dad’s books and decided which to keep, and which to give away. I called the library, but they weren’t accepted any new book donations until April. The lady I talked to asked what kind of books they were. I said they were mainly mystery and detective novels. She […]

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Connecting

Comment spamming and ultimate solutions

The comment spammers now seem indifferent as to whether their comments show up or not. Their (or I should say ‘his’ since it’s one known person) behavior is more in the nature of a malicious act than anything else now. Good comments are now ending up in my moderation queue solely because the spammers hit […]

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Weblogging

Syndication wars: The elephant and the tiny little mice

I had promised an essay on the so-called syndication wars–those battles between the proponents of RSS .9x and RSS 1.0 and the later battles between the proponents of RSS 2.0 and Atom. However, there is something sad about this little war now; old warriers have quietly faded away, in exhaustion and indifference, and the winners can’t wear ribbons as their chest […]

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Technology

Can I reformat my life next?

After leaving the hard disk recovery process running all night, this morning I decided that a better bet would be just to reformat the hard drive and start fresh. After installing the OS, and running Software Update to ensure I had the newest versions of everything, I reinstalled PicturePerfect, Adobe Photoshop CS, my Dimage software […]