My issues with iPhoto turned out to be a little odd. Apparently a JPEG file (most of our photos are in this format) has the standard time/date attributes which include created, modified, and accessed. In addition though, they have some others in the JPEG stream that photo apps can access which tell when the photo [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2006’
iPhoto
On my Powerbook, I’ve been struggling with how iPhoto organizes photos compared to how I think it should. I have photos on another system (Windows) and imported them. From there, it just got confusing. iPhoto did not keep all the dates straight. When I manually fixed them, it then wouldn’t automatically rebuild databases for thumbnails [...]
School and Uniforms
My 2 boys will be going to public school. Their school doesn’t require uniforms but I wonder if somewhere along their grade’s, maybe it should. I just finished listening to a show on NPR (our local) which was mostly discussing dress codes and how the school and kids interacted. During the show, I was impressed [...]
Bad Shoulder…
I’ve been suffering from a bum shoulder for the last week. Today it started to feel a bit better. Probably because I let it rest the most I have for the whole week. Tomorrow, I’ll try to do more of the same and with any luck by Monday, I’ll be 100%. I hate injuries. Occasionally, [...]
1 week till school starts
We are down to the last week in summer. I remember when I was a kid that this was usually a slow time. My friends an I usually felt that we had played all the games we needed to play, done the adventures we needed to do, talked about the things we need to discuss, [...]
Apple’s battery recall
Apple has decided to recall over a million Sony manufactured batteries today. The only reason that I mention it is that it affected me. I have a Mac Powerbook and had one of my 2 batteries match the numbers needing recall. Kathy helped me (cause I was busy with other stuff) get on the Apple [...]
Thanks, Wierd Al!
It’s been a while since I laughed this much about a serious topic. I got this from A Typical Joe so thanks. Here is a Weird Al song talking about the RIAA and copying songs. It’s absolutely hilarious and you should definitely go follow the link and listen to the song – Don’t Download This [...]
Happy Birthday Dad!
Today is my Dad’s birthday. I just talked to him and he’s doing well. As with all men of his generation, I think, we tend to have short conversations that do usually focus on weather (it was a hot one today!) and other mundane things before being transitioned to Mom. It means I have to [...]
Address Post
I’ve decided to dress up the front of the house a bit. Our front yard is terraced with a wall. On that wall, I put our address numbers but they have never been very visible and some of the numbers are even starting to come off so… I figured I would put up a small [...]
New Download Available
I’ve mentioned that I’ve spent a lot of time on tuning my home theater. That means a lot of things. One of the things it means is creating a universal remote to take over the job of 10 remotes. For that job, I chose the Philip Pronto NG TSU3000 and use the Philip Pronto NG [...]
Remote Profiles Updates
Remote Control profiles – Philips Pronto TSU3000 profile updated on August 19, 2006.? This was the first posting and includes programs for 3 rooms with all devices in those rooms.
Glasses for Xander
Today was a big day. A few days ago, we got the news that Xander needs glasses so we went today to go pick them out and boy was it a lot of effort (I had to do the same thing a few months ago and thought it was a lot of effort but this [...]
More Point Defiance Pictures
Check out the Pictures in Gallery/2006/August for more pictures from Point Defiance. There are some really great pictures there and you can really tell how much fun the kids had. Here are a few of my favorites ones: Kids really let you know how to have fun and live life. Being a parent is the [...]
Recording Industry Bans a Musician From Charts
Not only is the recording industry going after customers by sueing them (mothers, children, dead people even!), but they are now even going after the people they supposedly represent. Here is an article about a young artist getting banned from a music chart created by the BPA. The BPA is the British equivalent of our [...]
Point Defiance
Today we went to Point Defiance. We went to meet some friends visiting from Texas. We had a nice picnic (ok, Kathy and her friend Marilee made fun of me because I thought it was a good idea to get KFC!). We also had fun watching the kids be silly in the very cold Puget [...]