Why didn't anyone tell me…

I’m now reaching the very end of my tagging for digital photos. I started digital photography in 1998, well before it was ready to be started in reality. Here I am with my monstrous collection of photos now, and managing that collection is a bear. Over the weekend I was able to finish the tagging [...]

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<TreyB> I hope that the writers of Big Bang Theory can keep it up.  I really enjoyed the first episode. <daveb_wrk> i’ll have to mark that one. my wife goes to sleep with the baby leaving me free to try things she never sees. <daveb_wrk> that sounds worse than it really is. for instance I watched [...]

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[12:20] daveb: They should put coroners in MMOs [12:21] hlin: heehee [12:24] daveb: you could totally do it too. coroners clean up humanoid bodies in exchange for money provided by the government. get a police class that would be responsible for catching anyone that slays a humanoid and put them in jail (logs them off [...]

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I also have a couple missing pieces to this puzzle. If I carry my laptop with me wherever I go, I can read PDF files on the road. But I’ve been looking for a usable solution to read manuals/books/documents/whatever without the full keyboard etc. like on a PDA. Being previously employed by PalmSource, I looked [...]

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I’m not completely happy with my PDF storage mechanism yet. There are lots of pieces of solutions to this problem, but I want to address a couple things that aren’t normally addressed as part of the problem, which is why I’m not completely settled on what I’m doing now. Search files and contents Searching the [...]

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So knowing that I’d be in it for $200 anyway (a decent filing cabinet costs this much), I looked at what I could get in a scanner. I was also starting to think about how I planned to use this thing. I already had an all-in-one print-fax-can-pier, which has its uses. So I experimented with [...]

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I was able to rid myself of 4 boxes of paper and still keep them. I decided I wanted to move my filing cabinet to PDF. If you ever get in the mood to do this, these things might help you figure out the process. Here are a couple things to consider. Is it worth [...]

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One of the things about Aperture is the tagging is flexible. One of the things I like about their method is you can hot-key a set of up to 8 keywords and assign them with an option-3 or similar keypress. But this means you probably want to limit the number of things you’re assigning keywords [...]

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Any resemblence to people, online or off, is intentional, but not meant to be offensive, and is definitely not accurate to their playstyle or personality. I rather like this one because it lets off some of my frustration with email spammers.—– Elar was brought out of his sleep today as so many others in profound [...]

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For lo, Christmas came to Camelot. And it came to pass in the city of David a babe was born, being Christ the Lord. And in Emain Macha, angels did come to visit the farmers in their fields. And the chief of the angels did descend with his companions and did approach the farmers in [...]

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