An amazing amount of rain last night “bwrw hen wragedd a fyn” the Welsh for “raining cats and dogs”, literal translation is “raining old ladies and sticks”. A number of areas in west and north Wales have experienced flooding.

It’s a fact of modern life that computers require frequent maintenance and housekeeping. I’ve just downloaded the October critical update patches from Microsoft for Windows XP, these cure a number of recently discovered vulnerabilities in the operating system. My fax sending software has recently started to hang my machine when sending faxes so that has been re-installed and is now working properly again. I’m also archiving off a number of old files to DVD. All critical folders are synchronised automatically between the two main computers using a very nice piece of software SyncBack. All the hard drives on the main computers are also automatically backed up to high capacity external drives. All my photographic images are burned to DVD after downloading the cards from the cameras and the files are also copied a second time after completion of the job, we also keep the CDs that are sent to the lab, you can’t have too many back ups!

I’ve just purchased and downloaded a Photoshop CS2 script that will simplify my processing of proof prints by automating a number of the tasks that are currently carried out manually. This is a snapshot processed through the script of my son David with Tiegan (she really likes David).

Just been to my Welsh class in Church Village, we’re still struggling on numbers but hope a few more people will come along to make the class viable.

“Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.” – David Bailey