| Date (yyyymmdd) | Comment |
| 20080323 |
Bought a budget scanner; Canon Lide 25. It was the last, (showmodel) so I got a small discount. My previous scanner was a hand-me-down HP. It was too old and there were no drivers for Vista. The motherboard of my new PC was too new so the manifacturer didn't supply drivers for the SATA harddisk. What I read on the internet that model was quite tricky to get working on linux. So I donated the old scanner to my sister who is running ME (?!). Of course the new scanner is smaller, faster with beter and more software. But I wanted to scan loads of old paper from conventions, my college, courses etc. After hours of scanning the amount of papier that I as able to get rid off is dissappointing. Checking the scan, naming the file, feeding the sheets is so time consuming I already wished I bought a faster scanner. BTW it is so distracting and discouraging to go to old that old paper. But the scanner also is good for processing incoming paper-junk. I at least hope to prevent new piles and maybe in time slowly reduce my paper archive. Disk-space is not yet an issue and once everything is digital I can do an OCR run. Some of the sheets were very bad xerox-copies and hardly readable; some I got rid of right away some stuff I typed over by hand... Once I got my stuff tidy, I will have the piece of mind to program some demo's again.... while I was shopping for the scanner I pre-ordered the ASUS EEE, wich is due halfway April. When it arives it will take up my free time for a while. |
| 20080318 |
I have been very busy lately; training-course for work, son's birthday, installing washing-machine, dryer etc. Been doing some work on this site in the mean time but didn't update the blog. Removed photo from index and replaced with javascript graphic on new "about page". I have made the photo and the other graphics on the "about page" with a rudimentary javascript drawing tool. I haven't posted the javascript drawing tool itself because it's still under development. The resulting graphics scripts are actually quite bloated because the drawLine instruction is repeated a lot of times. Maybe I will compress them later, harvesting the co�rdinates and placing them in an array thats can be read in a "drawLine-loop". Another option is to redraw them with a beter version of the tool using a "chain of lines mechanism". It is still too much fun using the tool than to make a beter version. It's quite easy to add color but the monochrome results are good enough at the moment. Added extra level in Blog for selecting month(again most recent entry on top). |