Category Archives: Personal Writing

I Really Don’t Blog About Every E-Mail I Receive

Between posting my mother’s email to me, or some random notice I get from a website.  It would seem that sometimes I either do not value privacy or exploit others.   This isn’t the case.    I post things I think are interesting – sometimes it’s the personal moments in my life.    If you send me an

I Really Need To Start Cleaning Up My Flickr Images

I look at my data on Flickr and I get overwhelmed.  I’m missing meta data, missing tags, missing proper titles.   Though when you are looking at organizing and maintaining  over 3000 images anything you can do to start to organize them can get a little overwhelming. I’m assuming the number of pictures I’m going to

Stupid Facebook Chain Letter – I’ve seen a bunch of movies, but I swear I have a life

Every once in a while I actually do one of the stupid chain letter things – this one seemed right up my alley – so let’s look at the results.  Further discussion at the end. SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films

Days Inn or No Tell Motel – You Decide What My Stay Really Is

Tonight the weather was bad so instead of taking what would be an unsafe over three hour commute home I decided I was going to get a hotel room.   My wife had called and warned me before I was really aware of the weather so she was aware with no surprises.   I managed to get

Dealing With Different Public Domain Laws

Recently I started contributing to the International Music Score Library Project and I’ve ran into a small snag.   Currently I’ve only uploaded two pieces ( I did say I was going to contribute more to the public domain going forward) and I received the following message the day after I uploaded the pieces: Dear Creeva,

Just Because Something Is Online Doesn’t Mean It’s Public Domain

The above picture has nothing to do with this article. A few weeks ago I was having a discussion with one of my family members about web site design and blogging.   He stated that he was going to be starting some sort of manga/anime fan site based on a certain character.  I stated that he

Getting More Personal

Over the last couple months I’m sure some of you have noticed that I’ve been sharing more personal stories.   This isn’t to say that the blog is going to be all personal (I’ll keep the the mixture of technical to personal to irrelevant), it’s something to share a bit about myself in my writing.   Sometimes