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So, guess who deleted her Lightroom catalogue because it looked like a random .lrcat file lying around and was just clutter? And then cleared out her recycling box before opening Lightroom to ascertain whether or not the file was important, as she meant to do?

*facepalm*

PROS:
*This being Lightroom, I did not lose any photos. They're still all there. Except the ones I deleted through Lightroom, but I meant them to be wiped off the disk and they were. No sweat.
*I found my old catalogue! At some point I must have made a new catalogue. I remember this actually (well, not the making-of-a-new-one, because if I had, I'd not have deleted this one) because I remember opening up Lightroom and discovering that all my pre-November 2011 photos were gone. "Weird," I said to myself, and didn't investigate further.

CONS:
*Because I did not export many of the photos I developed, I still have the raw photos, but now all my work on the files is wiped. AGH, and I'd added not only cropping & other fixes, but also my tagging set! My metadata!
*I have to manually re-import a bunch of photos. I think all my photos are still there. Hrmph.

So now I'm mud-wrestling with Windows Backup (I've never had to restore a backup before, this is kind of exciting.) Since I don't have exactly emotional attachments to my developed pictures - more an annoyance that all my work's been wiped - it's kind fun! I didn't know that you could separately restore files; this is great! I was afraid you'd have to lump-restore the whole thing.

But...I last ran Windows Backup in August on to my behemoth external hard drive which lives under my table? Really? I'm pretty sure I did it before then...

I feel a right dolt.

...instead I have been checking the news page on lj, hoping that they break the comments there. It's not so much drama as it is outrage: so far (though I haven't read them all), everyone seems to be screaming noooo at the top of their figurative lungs at the latest fiasco, and only a few trolls or people-in-complete-ignorance have been saying that the FB/Twitter connect is good (and they're getting dog-piled.)

If lj doesn't learn anything else, please let them learn what good customer service means--please talk to your userbase, so that the thousands of commenters don't get angrier and angrier as no one responds...


Other thought: anyone read Atlas Shrugged? Opinions?

I've been reading this blog (made by the creator of xkcd: here is the link) and I have been laughing my head off at this particular post. It's about a survey the blogger did, to discover how people name colours (I think there were also investigations into how chromosome influence colour perception, and so on) and some of the comments by people are hilarious. It was an open response sort of thing--there isn't a set number of answers, and so some people spammed it with random comments--but the last part was just funny beyond belief. Here is the link. blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

I searched up "mixed metaphors" today, and ran across this gem of a website--it's hilarious in a *facepalm* sort of way. Still excellent for giggles. http://www.jimcarlton.com/my_favorite_mixed_metaphors.htm

In other news: OK, Les Miserables is definitely an elongated, highly-populated tale of redemption. I can't even count how many characters fall and are redeemed, except apparently Justice is not quite as adept...

Frankly, all of the hullabaloo in the States makes me want to laugh, because of how the new health-care reform is being portrayed: left wing, bleeding-heart liberal, and so on. I laugh because in Canada--well, universal health care is our status quo, and would even be considered conservative. Our left/right wing are apparently measured differently from the US; we use the meter stick, and they the yardstick. :)