@RellyAB Have you been at the red M&Ms again?
Bwa-ha-ha! Quick, @matt_fwyalchen, throw more examples at @bexxi and we’ll have her completely unable to talk by morning!
@bexxi @matt_fwyalchen Stone?
@matt_fwyalchen Hmm. I suppose “salt” is a bit old-fashioned, adjectivally-speaking. Erm…
@tweeny4 Cool! #smallworld
@tweeny4 Which one? (But I’m pretty sure the answer is yes, whichever it is…)
@Narshada Shut up.
@KaveyF Shiraz, yes, Grain Barge, yes, Sands, think so — may need to book Sands (we’ve been there, haven’t we?)
@guriben Yeah, it’s not surprising I can’t work complicated UIs, is it? :) Ta, will have a shufti!
@KaveyF Was eyeing up another recommended place, but guess what? No food on Sundays! What *is* it with Bristol?
@KaveyF There’s Sands Lebanese or (nearer me) Shiraz Persian. Or http://www.grainbarge.co… which is also close & may ple@ahnlaknlak :)
@ShabbyBean Hah! It varies. I’m normally quite good, but in my recovering-from-cold feeling-sorry-for-self mode, it tends to disappear fast!
Silly me. Why I didn’t I think to bring a snorkel with me for the walk home? Now, excuse me while I make these clothes dryer by washing them
@guriben (And if I used it more than once a month, I’d probably, eventually, write Automator scripts to do the three things I ever do…)
@guriben Yes! That’s a fine, if terrifying, analogy.
@Nose_in_a_book @hayles Indeed. And maybe it’s better than I’m not just still waiting for the next album #sad
@rabidbee Yeah, it did look a bit screwed. Just be thankful you’re in something with a roof; I got completely soaked.
While Calibre produces good results, its user interface was clearly written by someone whose brain is exactly backwards from mine. #ebooks
@pjakobs @Phooto I’m just thinking that my chances of that will be a bit higher if I weed out 20,000 photos that *I* wouldn’t keep first!
@pjakobs @Phooto Unfortunately, for that approach it helps if your photos are so good that future generations deem them preservation-worthy!
@Phooto I’ve been pretty good at “1 to 2 stars means the chances are I’ll never want to see this again”, luckily.
@Phooto Plus, if I’m paranoid, I can clone the whole catalogue & photos as it stands now and shove it in a drawer at work before weeding!
@Phooto …which is why I’m thinking about weeding my photos. There is _so_ much crap that I clearly will never ever even look at again!
@Phooto Yeah, that’s why I’m with Mozy. And fair enough, if I’m costing them money they should charge me…
@Phooto As long as the data is “live” on reliability-configured RAID in a couple of places, “archival quality” isn’t so important…
@matthew_roach All sorts. At some point I’ll go through and work out the best “someone could actually want this” candidates & tweet a pic.
@pjakobs I’ve never bothered about the media. A couple of different drives in the house (one in safe) and one off-site backup OK for me.
@Phooto @ahnlak No idea, sorry. I’ve never owned a NAS. Well, I’ve got an NSLU2, but it’s never been used as a real NAS.
@matthew_roach Do you want some more? I’m getting rid of a few hundred at the moment…
@matthew_roach Aaaah. I’d just assumed @garyjones1960 was being extremely modest and simply has yet to rate anything at 3, 4 or 5 stars :D
@matthew_roach Let me guess: you still have things in storage you’ve not used since 1985, “just in case”? @GaryJones1960
@ahnlak So do at least two of the others. But it takes *months* to work out whether an online backup service is any good :(
I wonder how much my backup needs would go down if I just chucked out every single one-and-two-star rated photo from Lightroom? :)
Hrm. So, @mozy unlimited is ending, and if I don’t do something, my new charge will be more per month than I pay per year. Gah.