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I got out into the yard for a couple moments this afternoon to take some pictures of the delicate yard flowers before the rain. There wasn't a lot of rain, but its comin!

Day 2

But I can't remember them.

Yesterday I was able to get my setup working the way that I think that it should, however I may have had the old setup running at the same time.

Today is the real test, and you your patience, another flower.

Day 1

I mentioned the other day on mastodon that I was starting to have issues with windows, again. There was just a couple of things that I am using an old desktop for automation, mostly publishing this site and a few backups with robocopy. I love robocopy.

However, because MS wants …

The tulips are starting to wilt but there will be a lot more flowers, don't you worry.

I'm starting to figure out a workflow for this site, and also for tooting via RSS. I'm looking for new and improved commenting for the site, and may even revive my posting to mastodon solution for comments.

We went for a quick wander around Cole Harbour Heritage Park today, which was a "mistake" since the MacKay bridge was closed for the weekend and that meant that we had to either risk getting stuck on the bridge if there was an accident, or drive around the basin.

I'm happy to say that I think I have something resembling an image processing workflow, but I'm not sure that I actually like it. But I'm not going back to Lightroom, and CaptureOne doesn't have the image handling that I would need to switch, so here we are.

We headed …

Spring is here in Halifax and we even had some rain.

Sometime last year I sold my old flash, it wasn't something that I had used in a few years. Then I decided that I wanted to up my macro quality, and the first thing I learned is that I needed a smaller aperature which meant I needed more light. To …

When my Adobe subscription was up for renewal, and they were increasing the cost by something stupid, and offering not much added service. This is on top of the AI nonsense that they are adding to everything I decided to cancel my subscription.

I am still having a hard time …