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How lame. It has been literally a couple years since I've written anything here. So much good information gone by the wayside. Things I should have said. Information I should have relayed. I've been cleaning out my PBase galleries this morning. I have an embarrassing number of galleries and images online. It's called maintenance. I should try it more often than once every five years.

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I've just come off a confusing computer crash that left me stranded for three weeks. A digital photographer must have his computer. My computer guy initially thought my C drive failed and I took it to a company for data retrieval, which was accomplished. Expensive. Worth it? Questionable. As my computer guy was trouble shooting it became clear to me the problem may not have been the drive. New drives installed failed, too, twice. So, an almost completely new computer later, it may have been a problem in the motherboard. Which causes me to ask, why won't the data retrieval company give MY hard drive back to me. The computer guy says it is so they have it handy if I need to recover any other data off it. The drive wasn't the problem in the first place, so obviously they are afraid I can simply plug it into my "new" machine and accomplish what they did for an ungodly amount of money. Here is something you may not know. I made some comment to the data retrieval receptionist about getting ALL the information off the disc. She told me "that's not the way it works." They will take off the disc only what you tell them to remove. Talk about underachieving. And, here is a fix for a problem some may be having. Soon after my computer was up and running, I found a couple of my games wouldn't work. I scoured the web for a solution. I downloaded the latest Active X software. Didn't help. Finally someone wrote suggesting a check on my hardware acceleration setting. That was the problem. Here's the drill: right click desktop > properties > settings > advanced > troubleshoot > move hardware acceleration slider to "FULL". End of problem.

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This is my first attempt at blogging. I don't know what entails a true blog, but it occurs to me I can get a run at it doing it this way. At some point I may include photos here. This will be, primarily, where I do a bit of writing on anything I want. My vision for it is to share niblets of information I pick up that truly help me, thus may help anyone reading. It just popped into my head I should make a disclaimer. I am a photographer. If I give information here that makes you a more deplorable photographer, causes you to lose data, or corrupts you life in any way, I am not bound by any law, to compensate you. Don't test me. I have no money. Just so you know up front. When I have a problem I've solved, I'll share the solution with you. Sometimes I research a topic on the web and find no answer that solves my particular dilemma. I'm sure someone out there will have the same problems I have, it's my pleasure to divulge how I fix or side-step the difficulty. I guess this will stand as my first entry. I'm not sure whether new entries should be at the top or bottom of the blog. It makes sense to keep it on top. Keep the good crisp stuff at the pinnacle and the wilting, putrifying material on the bottom, sort of like an ignored composte pile.