I had hoped to post a lot of photos tonight of my most recent visit to China (and my wife and daughter). As it is I've uploaded one AVI file am struggling with photo-album apps on my computer to get the jpegs posted.

Several Hours Later
I finally got Picasa to convert my photos and AVIs into a photo album. It crashed several times during the process, mostly while trying to index photos in the background I don't even care about. Sometimes programs try to be too friendly or do too much for you. Maybe in this case it is my own fault for preventing Picasa from running in the background constantly from startup, else it wouldn't be playing catch-up when I launch it. Still I hate how many programs try to hijack your machine and make it their own. While I was in China I edited Nian's laptop startup registry to run few programs on startup.

I'm amazed Picasa (a Google supplied application) doesn't provide an easy way to label individual pictures. Hopefully Nian will help me figure out some tittles for them, though to be honest it isn't likely I will go back and edit the 200+ html files that would need editing to make better names.

Another Hour Later
The pictures are still uploading, actually most of the time is spent on uploading AVIs. I have to go to bed, I have a job-fair I'm going to tomorrow in St Louis. When I get back I'll finish making links to the new album (I still have to upload the thumbnails). I really should have just selected a few of the better pictures rather than upload a whole CD of photos and AVIs. Ah, well it all has all been a learning experience.

Goodnight for now. Love to my wife and daughter. Today was a lazy Sunday, but tomorrow will be a long busy one.

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