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Comments about photo albums or the pictures in them.

Pictures – Pictures Wanted

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Okay, now that the Skool Daze collection is out there and hundreds of thousands of people are enjoying them, I am contemplating the next album. I am thinking there are a lot of wedding pictures that I have, and other people have stashed away, that could be put into a set for the future. Lets get all those hidden and nearly forgotten pictures out of the shoe boxes and closets and put them where people can look at them and “Remember the day”. Whether “the day” was in your memories “the most beautiful wedding ever”, or “Man, the stag last night was AWEsome!”, and I have heard the brides have some pretty exciting parties also! (PS if you want to send private photos of those events, you can send those too! I promise not to share them!)

One thing I am doing with all this is saving to DVD along with the genealogy data.

There are some provisions in place for trying to assure the genalogy data I have collected is not lost in the future. So, help preserve the entire Kasdorf collection for the future. Send your wedding related photos to be added to Kazology.

Please make sure you identify the people and the dates!

I am finding I like to arrange everything in a chrolological order rather than by family. Viewing the albums then becomes a small walk through history. Without names they are still interesting pictures, but not of much use in the future. With Windows allowing long file names most basic information can be added that way, saving it fairly permanently.

If it contains information not in the genealogy database I will add it there also.

Maybe I need to make a disclaimer since this is a public web site. I am talking about Kasdorf and related family lines. If you have no idea if this means you, probably want to hang onto your photos for the time being.

Looking backwards to the future,
George

Skool Daze

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Computer lesson #12-02-2005 titled “Don’t work late at night”.  Last night I spent several hours editing the captions for the pending “Skool Daze” photo album. Sitting back and admiring my work I notices a few photos that I had not included, so added them to the main collection. Somewhere at this point my foggy brain seemed to decide that if I then deleted the thumbnails and rebuilt them everything would be back in the correct cronologic order. I did the typical “select all” and then pressed the delete key. The program was nice and even asked if I was sure I wanted to do that, and well, heck yes I wanted to do that, or why would I have pressed the key? My brain received those electro-chemical pulses just a few micro seconds to late. OH… that didn’t delete the thumbnails, but the pictures that create the thumbnails. Rats… gone is gone. So having done this perhaps one other time (?) I had made a copy of the original picture folder which I was able to restore. Several hours after midnight I had the captions re-edited and ready to go. (This also gives me a good excuse for typo’s or other lack of judgement in the captions.) Now the critic/counsul needs to review the completed work to advise on any neccessary deletions. Then I will be ready to post. In this case necessary deletions may be photos of people having bad hair days (with the obvious exception of me), displays of inappropriate hand gestures.

(This alone caused a 30% reduction in the college era photos.)

People exhibiting un-intententional “plumbers crack” (although I have some great photos of the “Moon rising over West Lafayette” that I may still sneak in.. after all they are “Art” you know. – and John knows the photo I mean ;-) may also be supressed for the sake of the general public.
Stay tuned.
George