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What is it about Food Service?

November 2, 2008 by debbie T | Ramblings

ugh. I just picked up a sandwich at the drive through at Dunkin Donuts. I placed my order, and was waiting at the window. While one girl was making my sandwich, another must have spilled a little bucket of water on the counter area near the drink dispensers.

She was scooping up the spilled water and dripping the cloth all over the lids stored right in front of the counter. While she was leaning over, her shirt was touching the lids as well.

I mentioned something to the other girl when she brought over my sandwich, and I don’t think she understood what I was trying to tell her; she kind of just shrugged.

Yeah, I know food service is not always clean, but I hate it when I “see” stuff like this. I would rather just have it happen in the background without actually witnessing it.

And yes, I am glad I don’t drink coffee!! Those coffee lids were unusable!

Adagio Teas on Twitter

October 30, 2008 by debbie T | Internet • Ramblings

ooh cool, my favorite online tea site is on twitter.

http://twitter.com/AdagioTeas

I love their teas, and it’s easy to order online. Since I live very close to them, I receive my order by the next day. Hmm, I am running low, I think I will place an order tonight.

Adagio Teas

If anyone would like a $5 gift certificate for a future Adagio Teas order, email me and I can get one out to you. You get $5 off, and I get 10 points toward my “frequent cups” rewards.

Oh and I love their IngenuiTEA tea pot. I have been using the 32 oz pot for about a year, and I adore it. It makes a nice big cup of hot tea or I throw some ice in a glass and it makes ice tea too.

Happy Bokeh Wednesday

October 29, 2008 by debbie T | Digital Photography • Flickr

Happy Bokeh Wednesday (HBW)

Peeling away the layers

Bokeh is all the rage over at Flickr on Wednesdays! You don’t know what bokeh is? From wikipedia

Aperture 2 - Changing Image Date & Time

October 26, 2008 by debbie T | Aperture 2 • Digital Photography • Mac Software

Easy! To change the date and/or time of a photo file in Aperture 2, click Meta Data>Adjust Date & Time.

I tried it with the box next to “Also change master file” checked, and it threw an error. It worked fine when I unchecked that box…so experiment with the best setting for your situation.

Aperture 2 Projects Import and Export

October 24, 2008 by debbie T | Aperture 2 • Digital Photography • Mac Software

I tried a quick experiment tonight with Aperture 2. I wanted to see how Aperture’s project import and export worked and if photos would be duplicated if the same project was imported.

  1. First, I exported a small project from my Aperture 2 library.
  2. I launched a new test Aperture library and imported the project.
  3. I checked to make sure that it was imported into the Aperture library, and not referenced. All looked good.
  4. Back to my original library, I made some editing adjustments to one photo in the project, then exported the project as a new name.
  5. Launched my test library and imported the 2nd project. It imported as a brand new project, with no notations of duplicated data.
  6. I thought maybe it was due to the different project name, so I went back to my main library, and exported the project as the original name.
  7. In my test library, I imported the 3rd project, and it added it as a new project with (1) in the project name, again with no indication of duplicated files.

So, this means that if you like to work on projects on different computers, you will have to be careful with importing. I was sort of expecting (hoping) Aperture would “merge” the two projects together, updating any editing adjustments or meta data to all the files, instead of creating a new project all together.

Happy Bokeh Wednesday

October 22, 2008 by debbie T | Art and Graphics • Digital Photography • Flickr

Happy Bokeh Wednesday (HBW)

Time goes by so fast....

From wikipedia:

Bokeh is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field. Different lens bokeh produces different aesthetic qualities in out-of-focus backgrounds, which are often used to reduce distractions and emphasize the primary subject.

Aperture 2 Open Projects in Multiple Tabs

October 21, 2008 by debbie T | Aperture 2 • Digital Photography • Mac Software

Oh I love this, and I just found it by accident.

I had an open project, and noticed that somehow there was a tab at the top of my browser workspace. hmm, how did that get there?

I Googled “aperture 2 multiple tabs” and found out that you can command + click on a project to open it in a tab.

I am constantly switching from one project to another, and it’s annoying to keep switching from the meta or adjustments to project mode to choose a new project.

This will be so much more efficient to have all the projects I need open at once. Yeah, I suppose I will still have to click the tab to switch the project, but it’s still quicker than switching to projects mode, then scrolling to find my project.

Links:

  1. Inside Aperture: Opening Multiple Projects
  2. Safari Books Online (Preview)

AOL is a Cruel Joke

October 18, 2008 by debbie T | Digital Photography

haha, not such a funny joke, but AOL is so f@#*$ stupid!!!

I haven’t chatted regularly in years, but I decided to start chatting w/ one of my online buddies and dug out an old AOL AIM log in and password. I downloaded Adium and logged into my AIM account.

I figured I better head over to AIM.com to check settings and make sure everything was valid and up to date; my email address was incorrect, so I went through the menus to change it.

I get an email at my new email address, and the text instructs me to:

“Please reply to this email and type ‘OK’ within 72 hours to confirm your email address change to xxxxx@gmail.com from xxxxx@xxxx.com. It is really important that you confirm your new e-mail address.”

So, I reply with the word “OK” and silly AOL returns my email:

“Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 553 553 Requested action not taken: mailbox name not allowed (state 18).”

What?

I tried no less than three times to reply, and I received the same delivery failure message. The problem appears to be the extra long email address that AOL has set up for me to reply to.

I also tried to change my email address again in my AOL account settings, and it won’t allow me because “There is already a pending change. We cannot change your E-mail Address at this time.” Perfect.

So, since the original email I used to set up the account is inactive, I set up a forward in my web account’s cpanel to “forward” all mail to my gmail account. It’s absolutely crazy how messed up AOL is.

The Beatles - Help!

October 17, 2008 by debbie T | Ramblings

Blast from the past! The movie “Help!” was on the Sundance channel tonight. Oh what memories this brought back.

I haven’t seen it in years, and now that I am older, it takes on a whole new meaning and I can appreciate it so much more. I loved the camera angles, especially during the “music videos” - such a great film, and boy was John Lennon hot!

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How to Fix Camera Hot Pixels

October 16, 2008 by debbie T | Digital Photography

Found this post tonight on the Canon Digital Photography forums - scroll down to post #742.

Putting the camera in sensor cleaning mode (mirror lock) for a few minutes appears to jog the pixel.

I have noticed stuck/hot pixels on my photos when I use an extremely slow shutter speed, other than that, it’s really not a problem. But you never know when it might come up, so I am blogging this tip for the future.