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wow, it's a lovely morning in Edinburgh

9:04 19th March
18^th Mar
Comment on My Photo Workflow by Bradlay Law

17:09 18th March
anyone got any opinions on Javascript graphing libraries?

15:41 18th March
RT @mathie: Best Google Street View Image perhaps? http://bit.ly/aaXBh3 #fb (via @dedavidson)

14:02 18th March
Comment on My Photo Workflow by John Burrows

13:53 18th March
new blog post: "My Photo Workflow" : http://ollyjackson.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2010/03/17/my-photo-workflow/

13:47 18th March
New in-ear noise isolating headphones arrived (Ultimate Ears MetroFi 170v). First ones I've had. Very different. Can't hear myself typing

13:42 18th March
realised last night that our scottish power account is £340 in credit. from the winter period. nice estimate guys. #scottishpowerfail

12:38 18th March
17^th Mar
Comment on My Photo Workflow by El Yak

21:49 17th March
"Please remember to close this window".Yeah thanks Scottish Power.Maybe if you didn't open every link in a new one I wouldn't have to...

19:41 17th March
My Photo Workflow
1. Plug my Fuji F31fd in via USB
2. Fight with Windows Explorer to actually get it to display some thumbnails from the camera. What was wrong with just showing cameras as mass storage devices?
3. Drag and drop photos from trip into new folder on my HDD
4. Browse through photos using the fullscreen view in IfranView
5. Cull any rubbish, duplicates etc. Manually eyeball "highlights" that I want to upload to Flickr
6. Open up Flickr Upload
7. Drag my chosen "highlights" from Explorer window into Flickr Uploader
8. Re-order, rotate and add to sets where appropriate
9. Hit upload - wait a while...
10. Browse photos on flickr adding metadata where appropriate and cropping/adjusting using Picnik
11. Sit back and admire the Set view on Flickr
12. Run SyncToy to mirror my photos to a second HDD
Pretty clunky I know.

What I really want is a way of tweaking my photos online and getting those changes mirrored back locally. Slightly hampered by the fact that my local photos are on my desktop PC, which gets turned on monthly at the moment. Ideally I would have all my photos on some kind of NAS which I could then edit and upload from via my imaginary Macbook Pro and access the NAS remotely from work, pub etc. Oh and NAS should backup into the cloud. For free.

How does this compare to your workflow dear readers?
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13:23 17th March
Breaking News: "Killer pike removed from Par duck pond" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8570815.stm

12:46 17th March
latest 24 is a quality "old skool" episode. Just don't think about the plot too much

10:01 17th March
16^th Mar
20 new flickr images
- Design Museum, Brit Insurance Designs Awards
- Design Museum, Dieter Rams “Less and More”
- Design Museum, Dieter Rams “Less and More”
- Design Museum, Dieter Rams “Less and More”
- Design Museum, Dieter Rams “Less and More”
- Design Museum, Dieter Rams “Less and More”
- and 14 more...
22:01 16th March
whoah, when did cameo website re-design? I quite like it

22:34 16th March
urgh, this php code has a mixture of "if: endif" and normal "brackety" if statements. Nasty

15:38 16th March
15^th Mar
Just had a quality (if brief) pint and chat with @rowlando Remicised about the good/bad old days!

18:30 15th March
One Hundred Dollars | The Ministry of Type

10:09 15th March
14^th Mar
PC Gaming Sucks
- PC Gaming Sucks
21:08 14th March
Remember, tomorrow The Pacific premiers! (via @Heilemann)

22:06 14th March
oak-aged rioja is a strange beast. Smells like whisky, tastes like wine

21:12 14th March
Another reason PC Gaming Sucks http://flic.kr/p/7KGoYv

21:09 14th March
12^th Mar
Gorillaz – Superfast Jellyfish (Feat. Gruff Rhys and De La Soul)

15:04 12th March
humble software development - Finance Financial Graphs

13:52 12th March
Sword & Sworcery EP

13:53 12th March
11^th Mar
still no convinced this crazy OnLive thing is real. Unless they've made some insanely fast video encoding breakthrough

13:58 11th March
urgh, hacking PDFs. It's what gets me out of bed on a morning

11:36 11th March
10^th Mar
attended @techmeetup tonight. Interesting talk by @saidfm - seem like very nice people!

22:40 10th March
went to Greggs website to look up nutritional (ha) info on pasties.Pleasantly surprised by design! http://greggs.co.uk -but not the calories

13:21 10th March
zomg, went for a run last night, didn't die

13:12 10th March
9^th Mar
saw Exit Through the Gift Shop (the Banksy mock-umentry) last night. Intriguing...

16:29 9th March

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Oliver Jackson is a blogger, web developer & designer living and working in Edinburgh.

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