Family Life

We visited the Grand Canyon over a year ago and took lots of photos (of course). I dealt with all of them last year, tagging, cataloging, printing, uploading and archiving. All except one small set: a panorama composite of 130 individual pictures. I’d started to do something with it way back then, but it was [...]

So I bought a new computer. I meant to say, I bought a new hard drive. Not a new computer. I was tempted to buy a new computer. Oh, so tempted. I stopped by at the computer store on my way home from work today to buy a hard drive to replace the one that [...]

All of a sudden a hard drive on my computer got really slow. There were no error messages or anything, it just took a long time to copy anything to that drive. I noticed this a couple of days ago, but being busy I hadn’t really looked into it. Today I used some utility software [...]

It’s a busy weekend. Debbie did the weekly grocery shop in the morning, with Joel. I stayed home and played with Daniel and Micah. Debbie took Daniel out to get his portrait in the afternoon. I stayed home and kept an eye on Joel and Micah. Debbie baked and decorated a cake in the evening. [...]

These things just snowball out of control. It started with an idea I had to write down some family history. My brother kindly provided some web hosting space and set up a wiki for me. All I had to do was start typing, and learn a few of the software’s editing idiosyncrasies. Easy. A few [...]