RIKIKI

The above photo shows just how small my new portable external hard drive is. And, with the addition of the tiny monkey (I think it might be a spider monkey) it looks even more adorable than it does normally.
I got the 500GB version to hold my entire collection of photos and then some. I currently have backed up all the photos on my laptop as well as the music and intend on getting the new hard drive connected to the old one to get the rest of my photos from there as well.
You may be asking, if I had an external hard drive already, why did I need to buy this one? The answer to that is simple, ease of accessibility. The old hard drive needs to be plugged in to operate which means that I rarely use it. My laptop moves around the house on a regular basis and having to get close enough to a plug to allow the external to be plugged in is a huge hassle.

Backed Up

About a month ago I realized that my photos from 1998 to 2006 were not on the hard drive. I of course realized this right after a reformat of my computer. I wasn’t too concerned at the time as I didn’t really look for them and assumed they had just been accidentally moved to another folder. Turns out they had actually been accidentally deleted at some point as tonight when I tried to go through these images to finish a post I started before the new year (also to try and find some path images for Lynn), I realized that they were gone. I started to get a little worried, and normally would have freaked out but was too tired tonight to go into full frantic-mode. Dave had a look at the hard drive with me and confirmed that they were in fact missing. Before I could get too worked up, Dave remembered my initial method of backing up my photos (pre-hard drive): CDs and DVDs. It seems like an almost archaic method of backup now, but it worked. I found my photos and am currently putting them back on the hard drive (and laptop).
They will work as a form of entertainment for a few hours as I go through the last 12 years in photo form.

Windows Live Writer

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have downloaded a new program that claims to make blogging easier and more straightforward. It is called Windows Live Writer and I am currently testing it out. I have allowed it to access my blogs to gather the necessary information to properly format my posts, but for now am just testing it out here.

It seems a little odd and quite frankly I am not all that impressed so far, but I have just installed it a few minutes ago and this is my first post, so perhaps the program and I just need some time to get used to one another.

I will be trying a few things with it over the next couple days, like scheduled posts and posts in the past. It claims to be able to better edit posts and more easily insert photos, albums and videos so I will need to try all of those things out before I can make a proper review of the program, though I have heard good things from other bloggers, particularly photographic bloggers (as you can supposedly more easily edit the size of your images).

Anyway, just thought I would let you all know what I was up to, just in case my posts look a little odd for the next little while. I am going to be getting back to my Florida posts, I think the past few days acted as a good break, but I have many more places to tell you about before I am done with that vacation.

Lost

I have misplaced my flash drive (USB key) and therefore all the files on it. I am feeling terribly lost without it and don't really know what to do. There are so many places it could be and I haven't really had the time to look in any of them sufficiently. I may have lost it here at work or somewhere in our rather large (when compared to a flash drive) house. It went to Petawawa with me but I know I brought it back as I had to use it to return files to people around the office. Eek, I need my flash drive...I need the files that are on it...I don't know what to do without it.