Showing posts with label question. Show all posts
Showing posts with label question. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

gardening's going to be difficult

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As our move to Fuerteventura approaches, I start thinking about all the stuff that I'll miss. And plentiful supply of fresh water is going to be one. I like growing things. Granted, occasionally I neglect my plants, but I do like the fact that I can grow them.

Yes, I can grow cacti there, but, you know, somehow that doesn't seem like proper gardening.

There is water on Fuerteventura, of course, but not in plenty.

Anyway, I was thinking (mind you, I am no engineer, so what follows is probably completely impossible, but bear with me): You get a cold beer on Fuerteventura, you have a lot of condensation on the glass, so humidity's not zero, and this water can be used. But I can't possibly water my plants by getting a fresh beer every ten minutes or so. So, maybe some sort of solar-power operated device exists? Like of the doodle below - sun battery operates *something* that cools a surface where condensation is formed, water drops drip to the ground and there you are.

Now, it is entirely possible that it's not only doable, but is, in fact, done, and I can't find those things for sale because I don't know how they are called etc - looking in the wrong place (then please tell me if you know where to look). It is also possible that an efficient enough refrigerator (that's what it is, right?) is not possible. I would want to know that, too.

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pics from Fuerteventura on shutterstock

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

problem with keywording

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(picture is simply to have a picture here)

I have a strange problem with newly-bought Photoshop Elements 9 . It was bough specifically to be able to read raw files from my new camera - something that version 6 of elements can't do.

PE v 9 reads them and process them fine BUT! When I try to keyword ("file info" function), it rather consistently crashes. Which is a problem when you prepare images for stock. Don't know what I should do about it - maybe there's a free program somewhere which can fill in the metadata, not touching the quality of the image itself? If you know one, let me know, please

flowers isolted on black at shutterstock