Family pictures website

I've created a simple family pictures website to let everyone go through the slides as I scan them. The address is:

http://family.groombridge.ca

The first page lists the carousels I've scanned, with the number of pictures, any notes pops scribbled on the box, and 3 random pictures from the set.

When you select a carousel you see all the pictures in the carousel, and can double click on them to see a bigger version. The links to the "large" and "huge" versions probably don't work yet because I have not uploaded those copies. So far the first 5 carousels are taking up over 2 gigabytes of space, so I'm probably going to need to put them on an external hard drive and go put it in the server cage.

Anyway, that's it for my instructions, if you don't know the password (name of dog), call aunt Deb and ask her.

Scanning family slides

My grandfather has about 40 trays of slides that I've decided to scan. To do the job I bought the Nikon Coolscan 5000 with the SF-210 slide feeder attachment.



It works fairly well, other than the occasional jam when feeding old cardboard mount slides. What happens is the little raised ridges on the feeder will get caught on the window of the next slide exactly like this post describes:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=15300370

Although I am not sure I want to hack at my slide feeder like that guy did.

Bicycle versus car

Last week, monday may 28th, while riding down the bike path on henri-duhamel, a car at the stop sign on rushbrooke decides to not yeild the right of way to me (I had no stop), and well, you can see the results. Nine days later, I'm still in pain.

Oh and I don't know who all these people are that complain about our medical system. Between the doctor, nurses and radiologists, I saw 5 or 6 people in the two hours I spent at the hospital, and I must say they were all very nice, and the experience beat my expectations 100 fold.

Anyway, here's the bike.

My first post

Well, I guess everybody has to make a "My first post" entry the first time you setup a blog, and this is mine. Don't expect the unexpected with my blog, I'm likely to post boring stories about myself, and useless peices of information. And of course to completely bore everyone, I might even empart some of my computer programming wisdom upon the world.

So here we are, and "Hello World!"

Bill