Life (both the daily photo project and life proper) have been updated with photos from the last month. Didn’t meant to get so behind on doing that.

Also, random photos and photos from yesterday’s release party have been uploaded to photos2. Some new things have made it into portraits as well. (It was kind of an arbitrary decision whether a photo went into portraits or photos2… deal with it. :P)
I just realized I forgot to include photos from games at Jeremy’s on Sunday (as they were in a different folder). I suppose the random photo gallery will get another update at some point (or games will get their own gallery).

So yeah. Lots of photos lately. Lots of awesomeness in life lately.

Finally finished today. 189,985 photos tagged in Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 (and written to the photos themselves) covering my life from the past 9 years. I have photos from every month except one. It’s a nice feeling.

Going through, I came across this image. It’s my favorite image because of what it represents… I had just found out the previous afternoon that I got into Carnegie Mellon, which by itself was one of the happiest moments in my life. There was a pizza party at school that day (for some completely unrelated event that I can’t remember now) and the principal and advisor, unexpectedly, brought in this cake. It just reminds me what an amazing experience high school was for me. I’m also wearing my “Ratt pack” badge from the campus tech support I did that year. Lots of good memories in this photo.

Life has been updated pretty consistently and is complete up to today. This weekend, I will start working backward through photos so high school photos get uploaded as well. I’ll also do more statwanking for high school people, since I have all the photos tagged now. It will be good times.

So yeah, goals are progressing pretty well so far.
❏ Learn Scala
❏ Finish the people wars base set
✔ Finish tagging photos
❏ Finish the next RPG Get! expansion
❏ Playtest RPG Get!
✔ Take more photos (calling this done even though it’s never really done… but I will continue doing the daily photo project)

This past week has been… uh… quite an adventure.

First of all, I’ve had a sore throat for most of the week. This is unfortunate. If it doesn’t go away next week, I should probably go see a doctor.

Second of all, work has been rather… interesting this week. I have no comment other than that.

Third of all, I apparently ran into the free version of Adobe Photoshop Album’s upper limit on photos. After importing some 168,000 photos into Photoshop Album 3, everything seemed to be fine. Then, last night, I was importing and tagging photos from the day when it randomly crashed (with no error message or anything). I restarted and continued tagging only to have the same thing happen. Today, I went to try and debug the issue… so I reverted to the catalog from the previous day. No issues there. Then I imported yesterday’s photos again, only to have it crash after some clicking around the thumbnail view. Another revert was followed by an import of photos from high school. Same crash after some clicking around. As far as I can tell, it seems to have a limit of around 169,000 photos (and/or 500+ tags), after which point the program grows unstable.

Fortunately for me, I own a copy of Photoshop Elements 5, which comes with the newer version of Album. After a lengthy conversion process (at one point the progress bar stated it would take 1050 minutes to complete, but it managed to finish in slightly under 5 hours), I was looking at my catalog in the new album, and it appeared to be working without issue. Additionally, Elements 5’s album has the ability to write the tags to the photos’ IPTC data. It is currently working on doing that so I can migrate to Picasa or something in the future if Elements decides it can’t handle my 200,000 photos.

Fourth of all, this laptop appears to be randomly blue screening again. It also has started to freeze while playing DVDs (requiring a hard reboot). I swear, all the technology in my life is dying on me this week.

There’s probably more but I should head to bed (again) soon.

My Bag of Crap came from Woot! today. Inside was:

• One used Hundai drill, with charger and battery pack, but with no bits (not even the one that mounts to the drill itself)
• Two “Man Flu” stress reliever pills
• One “Fact or Crap” daily calendar
• One Belkin XM Xpress case
• Six Fartmaster pens

Not too bad of a haul. :)