I’m relieved that I … ok, file scavenger (great file recovery tool, BTW) was able to recover the last month of pictures we’ve been taking which includes quarter pipe ramp construction and christmas tree farm fun. They were mysteriously missing from the compact flash card. We’ll get them posted soon!
Major respect to file scavenger as it has saved my bacon twice now. The key abillity of this tool is scan the entire drive for files (vs. the easier undelete by unsetting the deleted flag). The first time the root of the file system of a failing hard drive got corrupted and over a 100GB of data appeared to be lost. A full scan recovered over 95% of the data. This time, it scanned the compact flash card and found over 1800 photos — luckily including the ones we couldn’t find before. I don’t buy much software as I am generally happy with open source software but this is one case where the money was well spent.
Posted by bruce as (un)happy consumer, computing, kids at 11:19 AM UTC
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In a discussion about how Ikea picture frames don’t work with movie posters because they are a little too small, supposedly due to being metric focussed, someone says "That’s how the US will eventually end up on the metric system…IKEA
will force us to. Curse You Crafry Swedish Conquerers!"
I kilo-love it!
Posted by bruce as (un)happy consumer at 3:48 PM UTC
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An interesting article on Brain Rot forwarded on by a friend after I complained about how annoying educational software is. I was referring to the setup hassles but now I’m starting to look at the actual educational value of the software themselves.
A nice quote:
Technology’s greatest contribution is to permit people to be incompetent at a larger and larger range of things.
Posted by bruce as (un)happy consumer, computing, kids at 6:16 PM UTC
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Cingular upgraded their voicemail system today and I love the changes because they are improvements in usability. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by bruce as (un)happy consumer, usability at 12:07 PM UTC
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I’ve been wanting a blog for a while now to capture:
- fun memories of the kids,
- notes on animated films I’ve seen, want to create, or am creating,
- trials and tribulations in the quest for the ultimate espresso,
- experiences and lessons related to building my physical vitality,
- observations of an unhappy or happy consumer,
- nerdly activities (struggles and successes) including TiVo hacking, and
- usability yeahs and boos.
I experimented with the more general Mambo CMS system but finally settled on WordPress because it’s really much more streamlined for blogging. I’ll be posting stuff in the past and will move this post back in time so it’s the first post so to be honest, the actual creation date of the blog was Nov. 16, 2005.
Posted by bruce as (un)happy consumer, animation, coffee, kids, usability, vitality at 12:23 PM UTC
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