Monthly Naomi Photo
Nomi & Daddy, originally uploaded by dina the m and o.
Even during the bustle of a birthday party, there’s always time for a tête-à -tête with my favourite girl.
The Backup is incomplete
The zipped backup file is 8 Gb. The restored doc files weigh in at 1.5 Gb. Clearly, something is lost in translation.
One of those things are all the inDesign files and all the vista-era Office files (.docx and .xlsx). This is no good at all, but I’m too tired to research the matter today.
Maybe after a nap.
Backup is Go!
I worked out the kinds in the system recovery process. My docs are in the process of being restored. Let’s hope they’re all readable when this is over.
Gah! Backups!
The 8 Gb backup of my data won’t restore! This isn’t crucial, but I’m really annoyed.
Anyone know how to unpack a .fbw file?
Repartir a Zero
This computer install is taking a long, long time. At least it’s a good chance to start clean, without any cruft.
Once all 75 Vista updates are downloaded and installed, I’ll start putting back the software. To wit:
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- Zone Alarm
- Avast (instead of AVG)
- iTunes (lost my Free Singles of the Week, dammit, but everything else is backed up) or maybe just WinAmp
- Filezilla
- Adobe CS3
- Open Office (I’ll try life without Microsoft for a while. See what happens)
- Visio
- Convert-X-to-DVD
- Picasa
And I think that’s all I really need. We’ll see how it goes.
Having a Grand Old Blogathon
I won’t be posting much here for the next 24 hours. Instead, all the action is at www.steve-blogathon.com.
Follow along as I review comics and go a little dizzy with fatigue!
Dwarves and the Mountains
I just finished delivering the final files for the seventh Open Design project: the Halls of the Mountain-King mega-adventure and the second Zobeck Gazetteer, Dwarves of the Ironcrags.
As always, the adventure is restricted to the patrons who bought in while the project was under development, and to those patrons of the next project who might want a copy (though they’ll pay a premium for it). The gazetteer is available for sale at all fine PDF purveyors, and eventually in print.
These two books were a massive combined 250-page undertaking…and I’m not done!
Why? Because, there’s a parallel development effort to convert the adventure to the 4th edition of D&D rules, and a completely new 4E gazetteer to match. Which means, in a month or so, I’ll be doing all this again…but with a slightly different template.
Until then, I’m leaving my copy of InDesign idle. The poor thing is severely overworked!
Boxed Set Bender
I’ve gone on another eBay collecting binge over the last couple of months. This time, the object of my obsession has been accumulating a cmplete set of introductory boxed sets for the various iterations of Dungeons & Dragons. For the purposes of this collection, I’m considering only sets that will teach the larger game, and which are not intended to be or marketed as complete games in themselves (this removes the actual Basic game from consideration, and the White Box / OCE edition – though I have those, too!).
Each set has its own strengths and weaknesses as a introductory tool. The list appears after the jump.
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Missing No More!
Ahhh…the missing cards have been located. They weren’t lost, they were mislabeled!
Phew!
Blogathon Boasting
According to the Top Fundraiser List, my Blogathon is currently the number two fundraiser!
My blog shows up at the top of the list, but it looks like Tiny Bites has as narrow dollar lead.
Thanks to everyone who is supporting the blogathon with donations, prizes, pledges and messages of “Go Get ‘Em!”