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Tag Archives: time
The smudge that was 2024
2024 is over, and that’s a good thing. It was not a good year. 2024 was, for all intents and purposes, a long blurry smudge of monotony mired with many minor personal disasters and distractions. Playing about with AI-tools and participating in numerous webinars on the topic ate into so much of my time that most projects I had planned for the year remain handwritten bullet points on a piece of paper. I also had a serious flu that may or may not have been covid, a broken tooth, a parking ticket, a speeding ticket, and a nasty case of lumbago. These are white people’s problems that don’t normally happen to me. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 2024, AI, AI image editing, babes, catastrophe, current affairs, dilemma, disaster, drama, misfortune, murder-death-kill, pain, time
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The quality of slide scans
Photo slides had completely disappeared off my radar until early 2008 when my father brought them over — along with a slide scanner he couldn’t figure out how to operate. I knew that someday I would revisit them with my trusty old Epson Perfection 3490 Photo flatbed scanner. What follows are my thoughts and experiences on the matter. Brace for impact! Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged advice, archival, digitization, digitizing old photos, experiences, history, memories, personal, projects, scanning, time
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September and the inner demons of detritus
My desktop machine had died overnight. Just like that. No warning. This was not the downtime I had in mind for my holiday. Whilst we took our three furry monsters to the beach, another demon waited for me at home. This was as good a time as any to upgrade my 8-year-old machine. Has it really been that long? Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged age, CDR, data loss, DJ, failure, garbage, hardware, insanity, kaputt, longevity, personal demons, time, upgrade
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Current status: Still sorting photos
It’s March 2023, and it’s been about one year since I started digitising my photo collection. What I hadn’t counted on was the amount of time that researching, naming, and sorting of the resultant scans would ultimately take. Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged digitization, history, images, memories, personal, photos, puppies, time
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Of Duke Nukem and aborted laptop ideas
Another use for an old laptop was to turn a donated Thinkpad into a “play-station” dedicated to preserving and showcasing old DOS games. And so, finally, Duke Nukem 3D was completed, start to finish. Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged DOS Games, gadgetry, hardware, laptop, nostalgia, software preservation, time, upcycling
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