Blogger formatting

New to Blogger, so I'm not sure if I'm missing something basic, but I'm kind o' miffed about the current formatting. The photos I've posted are cut off and the sound link posted in the last entry is pushing on top of the R side o' the page. WTH?

Looked around the other day for the solution, but didn't see anything obvious. Hmm...

Dirty Tart

Thanks to Digg, I came across a Brit radio show called Galaxy that roasted a gal live for having cheated on her b'friend. Almost want to feel bad for the gal. She got smoked.




Nothing like getting steamrolled LIVE. That's definitely gonna leave a mark.

Goodies for Me

Today was the day for parcels to arrive, apparently. My MS Vista Business upgrade DVD finally showed up. Sagawa tried to deliver it last night, but I was at work. Had 'em reschedule for early this morning in case I took off for Otaru to take pictures. Mayumi came over, so I didn't end up going to Otaru. But at least Vista came. Now I need to backup my drive and ponder whether I really want to make this jump or not.



Then this evening, a Post Office guy delivered a Nikon 50mm f1.8 AF lens that I'd picked up off eBay recently. Happy days are here again! Got an f-EE error when I first put the lens on, but a quick Google search led me to the answer in a Flickr D70 users thread- twist the aperture ring. That fixed it and I was off and shooting. Preliminary pics tell me that it is, indeed, a decent low-light lens. Just going from my gut, it seems a lot better than the 18-135mm kit lens for low-light. Might be headin' to Sapporo tomorrow, so maybe I'll put a little mileage on it then. Maybe I'll just leave the 18-135mm at home... Hmmm.

Google Desktop vs. Windows Search

So my 8gb SD card started acting up this morning; Threw it in the Dell 9300 at work and was greeting w/ 7.something GBs o' gobbledygook. Lovely. So I figure it's FUBAR. Brought it home, threw it in the D80 and hooked it up to my 5760 via USB cable (card reader won't read 4+gb cards). Worked just fine. How wacky is that?

So I see that there are a bunch of files from a trip earlier in the month that I could've sworn that I'd copied over to my HD, but couldn't find. Figured I'd finally give Google Desktop a reason to exist (as I'd never used it on this computer before). Before trying the files on the card, I thought I'd give it a test run on a known file in a temporary photo folder on my desktop. Just a regular JPEG- nothing special. Easy, right?

Can't say that I'm impressed w/ the bloated beast that is Google Desktop. Didn't find it. Odd enough that it's called Google Desktop and it can't find a single JPEG on my desktop. Thought I'd see if the clunky built-in search in XP was up to the task. Pasted the same file name into the Explorer search window and let it rip. Took a few minutes, but it found it. Can't say that I'm impressed w/ Google's search abilities here. Anytime you lose to the built-in Windows search, you're in a pretty sorry state.

All of this makes me wonder if I've missed some sort of setting or index issue, but looking through the settings, I didn't see anything obviously out of sort. That being the case, Google Desktop has been banished from my taskbar. Although I'm not a big fan of these bloated search mechanisms, I've got enough photos spread around willy-nilly that it probably wouldn't hurt to have a functional one installed. Might have to give the Windows Search (or whatever it's called) a try. Or, appropriately enough, I'll have to Google around for a better alternative to the failed Google Desktop search.

All Hail Fried Toast

My first "official" blog (I have to say, I HATE that word). I do have my LiveJournal, but... it's a journal, not a blog. Difference? Guess the journal just seems more private (even tho' it's public. Does that make sense?)

I read Dubious Quality everyday and Bill uses Blogger; that and Gmail rocks, so I figured Blogger'd be a good choice for starting (anew, if you will).

So, have at thee fiends. The gauntlet has been thrown.