Comments on: 278th Friday Blog Roundup

By: Battynurse

Battynurse — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:07:59 +0000

Thank you Mel. I’m all teary now. I’m so thankful for you.

By: caitsmom

caitsmom — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:36:44 +0000

Those pics are most valuable. I had (and have) many backups of digital pictures of my daughter, including the camera that I took them on. Then I dropped the camera and it was stolen, and even though I didn’t lose the pictures, I lost THOSE pictures. Memories are reconstructions and I need those pictures to help me remember her. Probably took the post in a different direction . . . but ah, there it is.
Peace.

By: Calliope

Calliope — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:19:30 +0000

sooooooo nervous to delete ANY photos but I know at some point I will need to make more space as well. It makes me panic just to think about it!

I love the idea of having a Harry Potter photo and knew immediately which one I would use: it’s 1979 and my oldest uncle just got married (again) and everyone went over to my Grandparents for a barbecue. We all gathered by the carport and uncle’s new bride took a family photo. Everyone is SO happy and silly in the actual photo. And it would be nice to have healthy images of my Uncle, Grandfather & Grandmother.

By: Bea

Bea — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:38:08 +0000

I am so nervous about deleting already-backed-up photos that I don’t have enough room on my camera to take new ones most of the time. Now that is not right. I should get onto that.

Bea

By: VelvetMinxx

VelvetMinxx — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:27:41 +0000

Woot. I’m all over that dream one! THANKS!

By: PFM

PFM — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:01:09 +0000

Thanks, Mel!

By: loribeth

loribeth — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:53:30 +0000

I upload my photos from my camera to my hard drive as soon as I can after they’re taken. Once my memory card is full, I get prints made of ALL the shots. I have the photo shop make me a backup CD, & I burn my own backup CD (just in case) and take one home to my mom (for her interest as well as backup) whenever I visit. I recently got one of those small backup hard drives (which actually has more memory in it than my computer does…!!) & backed up all my files on that, including my photos. And I have a few memory cards and rotate among them. I don’t actually clear the photos off the card until I’m ready to re-use it again.

And I STILL have a very hard time pressing the “clear all” button.

There is an old photograph, taken sometime in the mid-1930s, I think, of my grandmother’s family — of her, with her parents & all her brothers & sisters, outside their house. It’s the only such photo I’ve seen that includes the entire family, and when I look at their faces & how they are standing & who they are standing close to — & NOT close to (!) — it is just so typical of what I know of them personally & about them through the stories I’ve heard. I think it would be fascinating to see them actually moving around & relating (or not — as was sometimes the case! lol) to each other. Especially my great-grandparents, whom I didn’t know at all, & especially my great-grandfather, who died before my mother was born.

By: Lollipopgoldstein

Lollipopgoldstein — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:33:07 +0000

Mash, that sounds terrifying. I think the image that comes to mind the most when I think about crime in SA is the idea of a rape gate. It’s terrifying that such a thing needs to exist.

By: a

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:01:41 +0000

I hate to delete my photos, even after I have backed them up. I should just break down and make a photo book on Shutterfly or something.

The HP-type photo that I want is one of my dad standing in the kitchen of our (old – mom sold it long ago) house. The picture was just so him – the expression on his face, the posture, everything – that I know he’d be having a grand time. And he could snack, drink coffee, play solitaire, and read the paper – all of his favorite things!

Commented over at BlogHer on the Please Rob Me thing, but mash’s response makes me happy that we have these “problems.”

By: mash

mash — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:25:07 +0000

Hmmm interesting article (on Please Rob Me). Gives me perspective on the world, and an interesting view on how the other half lives. The majority of criminals in our country have never even seen the internet! Our houses are protected with alarms linked to armed response, burglar bars and security gates. Our gardens are surrounded by electric fences, and at night we switch on beams which are also linked to alarms and armed responses. Robbers in this country (the word robbery here does not refer to a break in but an armed robbery) prefer people to be at home, so that they can put a gun to their heads and make sure that no alarms are set off. We grew up in a country much like yours, where kids played in streets and parents occasionally forgot to lock the front door when they left the house. It snuck up on us, this new world we live in in South Africa, and it’s easy to forget how it was, when people were still concerned about someone breaking in while they were out!