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Backing Up Your Digital Photos

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Here’s a scary thought…your computer just crashed, and all your photos are gone in the blink of an eye or the strike of lightening. All of them. Gone. I don’t think any of us are prepared to walk away from all our photos without some emotional attachment. I know I’m not. If you ask many people what they’d grab out of their burning house, many would reply that they’d save their photos (or these days the computer that houses those photos). They’re the physical reminder of the memories we’ve built up over the years. So it makes sense that we’d … Continue reading →

A Lesson in Backing Up

While my academic degrees are in theatre I’ve always been drawn to technology. I’m part of the generation of people who didn’t always have computers in their lives (although they existed). I didn’t interact with a computer until I was in about the second grade. The screens were a single color: green. There weren’t really “pictures” and the resolution was much worse than an 8-bit gaming system. This was a device meant for letters and numbers and some other things but largely uninteresting to me as a child. Jump to the future: I’ve got more monitors and computers in my … Continue reading →

Backing Up Digital Photographs

Since we have discussed how to properly store your digital photographs, I thought I would take a moment to ask you if you are actually doing it and how often. In addition, it is important to discuss when to do it. There is a reason this is important to me right now. Yesterday while writing, my laptop started acting up. It took me a long, long time to figure out what was wrong, and I won’t bore you with the details, however one thing that kept crossing my mind was that every photograph I had taken in the past week … Continue reading →

The Dusty Boxes 2

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The buildup to this post (part 1, if you will) can be read here. And lest you think I’m sending you to something unimportant: the buildup is all. In fact, the buildup is so important that I really suggest you read it first. Have you ever exerted a great amount of effort moving something or keeping something that you never looked at or used? Yeah? The buildup is important. At any rate, last time we left off I was opening a box from my college years in Minnesota (at least that is what I thought at the time). When I … Continue reading →

Technology and Children

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I’m a big fan of letting children around your computer. No, they aren’t going to become zombies and yes, they need to go outside and play. The computer isn’t just something that needs to be relegated to how video games are treated (and I think there is some value there too). At any rate, I’m a fan of computers and of children being introduced to them. Our son is constantly around computers because of the type of work my wife and I do. We work with information and process that information for ourselves and for others (in our case students) … Continue reading →

The Blessings of Being Set Apart

As members of the Church, we are all given opportunities to serve. Sometimes these opportunities come as assignments, but more often, they come as callings. We serve in our callings for as long as needed or until we are given a new stewardship. Some serve for as many as five years, but it’s rare to hold a position longer than that. When we get a new calling, we are set apart to serve in that calling. This means that the bishop gives us a blessing that we might be guided and inspired as we fulfill our duties in regard to … Continue reading →

Sunday Travel Funnies—-So Weird You Have To Laugh

Some obnoxious guy I met at a rest area in Omaha once told me that traffic laws were made for other people. I thought about him when I heard about the man in Utah who insists: “Traffic laws are God’s laws” and takes it upon himself to enforce them. According to Utah police, a local Church of Christ minister has been on their radar screen for a while ever since officers received numerous complaints that he made a practice of jumping in front of fast cars in his neighborhood, sticking brooms in their way and backing his own car in … Continue reading →