The Bland World of Tech News
Gizmodo, CNET, PC World, Wired, eWeek, CNN… you are all failing me, and don’t feel bad, you’re not the only ones. Is it because talking about anything related to Apple raises hits on your site the reason about 25% of your articles are something related to the company? Please find something new and nerdy to report on and if you can’t do that then at least find something interesting to report on with Apple.
The whole stolen iPhone prototype story, not boring. The whole thing can be summed up like this: Apple employee gets his phone stolen, it looks different than other iPhones, was locked so no one has any idea how it runs. Excuse me while I change my pants because that is absolutely riveting. Yet Gizmodo ran with that garbage for days and any site that wasn’t Gizmodo just talked about their iPhone discovery. As far as I can tell in the world of Technology the only other thing that happened this week was Facebook had some privacy control changes for the 800th time in the last 30 days.
4 out of 7 Articles are Apple Related
Stop being so lazy, find some real news.
No Photo Selected problem in Lightroom 2
Missing Photos
I’ll keep this short. It might not ever happen to you, probably because you don’t use Adobe Lightroom. Recently I had to reformat and do a reinstall because I was clinging to the Windows 7 Beta for dear life never wanting to have to redo everything all over again. Unfortunately having the computer reset rather randomly every two hours or so got to be a little too much. After restoring all my files and checking to make sure my Library was all there life was good.
Today I fired up Lightroom to try and sort through the pile of trash known as My Photos and was presented with the above screen. It’s actually happened to me once before, the first time lent me to wasting two hours of my life dicking around on the internet not finding a solution. I backed up my library, restored it, repaired the catalog, reverted to an old version, nothing worked. Ultimately I was like “Hey what happens if I go back to Lightroom 2.4?” Well that worked.
So once again here I was presented with the missing photos that are actually there. I refuse to give into the 2.4 downgrade this time around. I mean, I know there are a hundredmillionkajillion other people using the proper version of Lightroom, so damn it, I will too. I tried my luck at Google again and finally came across something that helped. Thing is, shortly after redoing my computer, and verifying the photos in Lightroom I noticed the color profile for my monitor was off. Not enjoying a yellow tinged photo I picked a new profile to work under. Well apparently LR isn’t a big fan of WCS Device Profiles.
The fix is as simple as picking, or creating, a new ICC Profile and restarting Lightroom after applying it. Seems rather stupid Adobe couldn’t have thought of some type of warning system to tell me it’s not compatible rather than letting me guess at the problems but there you have it. Don’t use WCS profiles with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.
Someone Answer the Door
I mostly want to be rich to do all sorts of awesome pranks/stunts I can’t do in my current financial situation. I’ve been talking about a lot of these for years but it’s good to get them down in writing in case I happen to find a jackpot winning power ball ticket just kind of laying around on the ground somewhere.
Back when I first moved to Des Plaines in 2007 I started ordering groceries from PeaPod.com. It’s really not that much more expensive and I really think I should start doing it again. The produce is really nice. I started going back to the store again mainly because I wasn’t sure how to tip the delivery guy. Every time he would arrive I would have extreme anxiety about what was the right amount to tip; was I even supposed to tip? I was paying for delivery after all…
Tip or not the delivery man would always walk into my apartment set down the groceries and that’s when the gears started turning. I’d go to the web site and substitute my regular order of food consumables for 40 boxes of Trojan Condoms, 4 cases of beer and another 2 cases of water (just to make him do multiple trips back and forth to the truck).
Since the delivery times are fairly tight I would also arrange for half naked girls to be sprawled around the apartment. Hopefully they’d look all strung out. Upon entering my sanctuary I’d instruct the delivery man to put my beer cases “over there with the other ones” which would just be a collection of the same beer with visible dust on the box because I obviously was not drinking any of it. Perhaps during this entire sequence of events I’d be dressed like a pirate or ninja, something bazaar. Answer the door as a Furry?
In a way I’d feel a little bad for the awkward situation I might be creating for this Peapod man. I do believe though that he wouldn’t realize it was a gag and just have a “crazy story” to share with his friends. It’s a win/win because I’d also have a possibly hilariously uncomfortable video from recording the whole thing.