Comments on: Where do we go from here? http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here I am me. Who are you? Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:18:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here/comment-page-1#comment-8189 Paul Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:50:31 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here#comment-8189 A Flickr Pro account keeps me sleeping at night... providing me the best way to organise, share and enjoy my photographs, all the while knowing I could download them all again (at original resolution) or perhaps order a backup of them on DVD (which I've done before and works a treat). Music wise, I have around 18k tracks... and if I lost them all in a digital calamity, I'm not sure how much I'd be bothered to be honest. Knowing that I only listen to around 2 or 3 thousand of them frequently (and I have the originals on cd) I'm not sure after the initial swearing and cursing if I'd be that fussed. Plus re-encoding and meticulously tagging them would be considerably easier now than when I first did it. A Flickr Pro account keeps me sleeping at night… providing me the best way to organise, share and enjoy my photographs, all the while knowing I could download them all again (at original resolution) or perhaps order a backup of them on DVD (which I’ve done before and works a treat).

Music wise, I have around 18k tracks… and if I lost them all in a digital calamity, I’m not sure how much I’d be bothered to be honest. Knowing that I only listen to around 2 or 3 thousand of them frequently (and I have the originals on cd) I’m not sure after the initial swearing and cursing if I’d be that fussed. Plus re-encoding and meticulously tagging them would be considerably easier now than when I first did it.

]]> By: mum http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here/comment-page-1#comment-8182 mum Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:18:27 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here#comment-8182 One of the benefits of getting older is that you slowly realise that you can't keep/remember everything. For many years I could not bear to throw out some things and the odd time I did I used to always manage to throw out the 'wrong' things. But as the memory begins to fade it becomes less important to have a record of EVERYTHING. (although pin numbers are a must...!) The things you really want to remember are imprinted in your brain or heart. When your time is spent seeing, supporting and caring for real people with their highs and lows, you don't have time to wonder about the 'stuff' of life. Having cleared out my mum's house I now realise that all the stuff she couldn't bear to part with, is now left for me to keep and probably dispose of when she 'goes' as I don't have the same connection with it. I've now decided that the TIME I used to spend worrying about the stuff, could be better spent- and so could the money I spent on it! One of the benefits of getting older is that you slowly realise that you can’t keep/remember everything. For many years I could not bear to throw out some things and the odd time I did I used to always manage to throw out the ‘wrong’ things. But as the memory begins to fade it becomes less important to have a record of EVERYTHING. (although pin numbers are a must…!) The things you really want to remember are imprinted in your brain or heart. When your time is spent seeing, supporting and caring for real people with their highs and lows, you don’t have time to wonder about the ‘stuff’ of life. Having cleared out my mum’s house I now realise that all the stuff she couldn’t bear to part with, is now left for me to keep and probably dispose of when she ‘goes’ as I don’t have the same connection with it.
I’ve now decided that the TIME I used to spend worrying about the stuff, could be better spent- and so could the money I spent on it!

]]> By: hans stolte http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here/comment-page-1#comment-8180 hans stolte Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:19:59 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here#comment-8180 I print photos, keep them in albums and keep video on tape, as DVD's have a lifespan on average of 3 years :) Essentially backups are a good idea for photos, they are yours and nobody else has them, mp3's well world is full of them. We live in a society where we have eventually realised what has value and what does not, once an item has value to the masses and is easy to obtain it is thereby worth nothing. Take windows, the 'World of Warcraft' makes more $ than Windows, and why? The value in the content and the model of delivery. M$ is trying to match this with its 'add ons', but everyone knows that windows is a 'free' product, like MP3's. I print photos, keep them in albums and keep video on tape, as DVD’s have a lifespan on average of 3 years :)

Essentially backups are a good idea for photos, they are yours and nobody else has them, mp3′s well world is full of them.

We live in a society where we have eventually realised what has value and what does not, once an item has value to the masses and is easy to obtain it is thereby worth nothing.

Take windows, the ‘World of Warcraft’ makes more $ than Windows, and why? The value in the content and the model of delivery. M$ is trying to match this with its ‘add ons’, but everyone knows that windows is a ‘free’ product, like MP3′s.

]]> By: Blue Witch http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here/comment-page-1#comment-8172 Blue Witch Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:27:05 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here#comment-8172 I'm sure you won't be surprised to learn, after yesterday's comment about liking cardboard index cards, that I still get all my photos printed, and have them installed in chronological order in albums. We're currently on Volume 43 (15 years worth), plus I have another 15 or so volumes from earlier times, I think. We may need another extension to house them all, eventually.... My photos also exist in CD form (that's the version from which I have them printed), and cataloged on a dedicated external hard drive and on a separate backup drive. But, I have no visual memory, so it's important to me. Photos look so different printed to on-screen, and it's a completely different experience looking through them in the 2 forms. If I want to use a photo as a design stimulus for a painting or piece of textile work, I can't use an on-screen version, it has to be a hold-in-the-hand paper one. As for music, well, what's wrong with those 12" black things? ;) I’m sure you won’t be surprised to learn, after yesterday’s comment about liking cardboard index cards, that I still get all my photos printed, and have them installed in chronological order in albums. We’re currently on Volume 43 (15 years worth), plus I have another 15 or so volumes from earlier times, I think. We may need another extension to house them all, eventually….

My photos also exist in CD form (that’s the version from which I have them printed), and cataloged on a dedicated external hard drive and on a separate backup drive.

But, I have no visual memory, so it’s important to me.

Photos look so different printed to on-screen, and it’s a completely different experience looking through them in the 2 forms.

If I want to use a photo as a design stimulus for a painting or piece of textile work, I can’t use an on-screen version, it has to be a hold-in-the-hand paper one.

As for music, well, what’s wrong with those 12″ black things? ;)

]]> By: thom http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here/comment-page-1#comment-8171 thom Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:35:55 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/12/14/where-do-we-go-from-here#comment-8171 sorry should have been http://mozy.com/ sorry should have been http://mozy.com/

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