Seen when I went out for a walk today, about 1000m from where we live
Spotted in a garden down the road from us. They were next to the road, but retreated to the other side of the garden when they noticed . . . → Read More: Dear deer
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It is interesting that every country seems to have its own quirks about how they like letters to be addressed. We have to send some post to Canada this week and wanted to check the two-letter province / territory code to write in front of the post code. The Canadian postal service has . . . → Read More: Addressing post Air travel in Europe or the USA is an ordeal these days. You will probably have to show your ID multiple times during the check-in process for international flights, you will be asked whether you have left your luggage unattended anywhere, who packed it and you and your luggage will go through various scanners. . . . → Read More: Making airport security smarter I have done this a couple of times in the past, and the solution is not well documented by Apple: I use Aperture 3.0 to manage my digital photographs (tag them, edit them, organize them, and so on). I don’t like the idea of storing my photographs inside the Aperture library. An Aperture bug could destroy or damage them them, and recovering them from a backup could mean loosing my latest pictures. So I store them externally (on a server in my case, but it could also be on an external USB-drive attached to my computer) and link to the original images when using Aperture. That is what Apple calls “using referenced masters”. What I have done in the past, and again a couple of weeks ago, is to replace the server that the photos are stored on. The new server has a different name and network address, so of course Aperture can’t find the referenced masters of my photographs. This needn’t be obvious immediately – Aperture keeps a lower resolution copy of each photograph in its library, so until you need to access the full-resolution version of the picture, you don’t see that the connection to the external master copy has been lost. By the time that last happened, I had re-formatted the original disks and sold the server. Really, the only thing I needed to do was to globally edit the old path to the top directory where the photos were stored – replace the server name or network address with the new one, and everything would have been OK. Scanning the documentation and the Apple discussion forums didn’t give me any help on how to do this. Apple foresees you wanting to move referenced master photos from one drive to another, but assumes that you still have the old drive and that you want Aperture to do the moving for you. If that is the case, you can use the “Relocate Masters” command. But there is no obvious way to change the address of the masters if you don’t have the old drive. Continue reading Relocating referenced master images in Aperture I rang Antonio, our architect, last week, as we still didn’t know whether he had been able to submit our application for planning permission in Xàtiva for us. We had arranged with him when we were last in Valencia that we would transfer the planning application fee of nearly 8000 EUR to his bank . . . → Read More: Planning permission applied for Accused file-swapper Jammie Thomas-Rasset was yesterday hit with a $1.5 million fine for downloading and distributing tunes by Richard Marx, Journey, Def Leppard, the Goo Goo Dolls, No Doubt, and others. Each of the 24 songs at issue in the case cost her $62,500. Meanwhile, the same offense in Germany might cost you . . . → Read More: Cultural difference
Increasing eBay problem – users don’t rate transactions any more As part of the preparation for moving to Spain in the not-to-distant future, we have been clearing out some of the things we have accumulated over the last 18 years in our present house, that we don’t actually use any more, and selling . . . → Read More: Poor manners on eBay
Interesting facts about the Internet Not only Africa is large (see the previous post), the internet is too. If you have 3-4 minutes, take a look at the slide show above (click on the screenshot to start it). The first internet web browser to be created was Mosaic in 1993, which is . . . → Read More: The Internet is pretty big too…  A lot of the rest of the world could fit in Africa If one thinks about it at all, then one tends to underestimate the size of Africa. In fact it is big enough to fit in most of Europe, the USA, Japan, India and China and then some. The US clothing store Gap Inc. has a new logo. Gap – old (left) and new (right) logos Unfortunately it isn’t well received. In fact there is even a website called crap logo, where you can generate your own logo in Gap’s new style. Perhaps I should give Keys Corner a . . . → Read More: Crap Logo |
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