Thoughts On Rails

Long while back when I used to photograph a little less, I had lost over 400 photos to my computer vendor’s ‘assumption’ that I wanted the computer to be formatted, when I had specifically asked for an emergency backup since the hard disk seemed to be failing.

Thankfully most other files and photographs were backed up on CDs. But it was and still is a big loss… 400 photos was a few week’s worth of work and memories.

And just a few minutes ago, I recovered a photo from my camera with PC Inspector - Smart Recovery. I have used their File Recovery software too; both are free and highly useful.

Yesterday I installed Exifer, a good software for tagging photos with EXIF and IPTC tags. I need to be able to tag all my photos on a daily basis, without feeling burnt out after the work! IrfanView lets me do the work… but it’s OK for a photo or two, and I have a few thousand pending. OK, that’s not ‘daily basis’, but till date I have not done that *much*.

There’s KeywordCompiler, but it is complex, and probably beyond my requirements right now. It is free, so I’ll keep toying with it.

Ah, getting back to the point ;-) I was playing with Exifer and messed with an important photo:

Messed as in managed to corrupt the original hi resolution file and left with no backups!!! Thankfully I had not done
any photogrpahy yesteday, so I quickly downloaded the software and in a matter of less than five minutes, my photo was recovered. Only work that remained was delete the corrupted file, rename the recovered file and most important of all. TAKE A BACKUP!!

This time it’s the big, bad, stinking city I hate going to… Mumbai.

Well, I can’t stand the damp climate. Having shower 3 times a day doesn’t help and the air isn’t clean and light like I’m used to.

But anyway, I’ll be there for 4 days (**shivers**). And that’s not the bad news yet. My phone will be down for those 4 days. It goes into “unreachable” mode when I enter Mumbai. This issue is being handled by the Govt., but right now… it’s *the pain*.

You can STILL contact me over SMS, send it over to 9822758875 but don’t expect a speedy reply unless you mention URGENT ;-) This number is not mine, so just mention “hashu,” in the beginning. Hope that’s fair enough.

Anyway, goodbye Ahmednagar, for a while! I’ll be back soon.

So, here’s the link for the photos from Nasrapur’s Sunday School Teacher’s Training programme…

Photos

Please note that the photos are really big (almost 1.4 MB full size) so download the full size only if you need to print large sizes. You may just click on teh very small pictures to open the slightly larger photos and then right click and select ‘Save…’ to save the file.

Have fun.

If you need any assistance, my phone number is: 9850885021

I’m back. As usual, photos are available on Flickr. (The Photos link.)

More on the photos will arrive shortly.

But First… some sleep!