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Self Portraits in BenSpark’s PhotoBooth

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Self Portraits in BenSpark's PhotoBooth
Photo-A-Day #1400

Today was a very cool day because I’m making some really great connections. First off there are all the great people from IZEA who are very excited about my recent post about the 10 best reasons to attend IZEAFest 2009. In the conversation in the comments Carri from IZEA got a great idea of doing a photo-a-day countdown. We talked about those construction paper countdown rings. Carri made it more Web 2.0 and decided to make an IZEAFest 2009 daily photo countdown. How cool.

I decided today to go and put myself in BenSpark’s PhotoBooth. What is BenSpark’s PhotoBooth? BenSpark’s Photobooth is something that I am going to do with my Xshot as often as I can. So if you see me at a conference then you have to step inside BenSpark’s PhotoBooth, it might be very beneficial for you. Oh man I am so excited for IZEAFest 2009.

I also rearranged my sidebars to include my full BenSpark’s PhotoBooth photoshoot on the left sidebar. Let me know what you think about how things look. I did notice that now that the tag cloud has been added I see that I have a bunch of posts that are set as uncategorized. I need to go through all my old posts and update them so that they are in proper categories and I’m trying to narrow them down to between 10 and 20 categories to make searching much easier. With over 3200 posts cleaning everything up is going to take some time. Lots of time but having everything cleaned up with an excerpt for all of them plus tags, proper categories and info in the All in One SEO Pack. I’ve been making sure to use that in every new post now. A great plug-in certainly a must have.

Photo-A-Day

Some New Tech

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Some New Tech
Photo-A-Day #1399

No, I haven’t gone crazy spending some stimulus package. Am I the only one sick of seeing those scam ads on Facebook? No, I watched OfficeDepot as the price fell on the Wacom Bamboo Tablet and the 4 port USB hub. The Samsung camera was a giveaway from a generous sponsor at IZEAFest 2008. And generous Swag is reason #9 for going to IZEAFest 2009. The 1 TB FreeAgent XTreme external hard drive from Seagate. I won that from a contest on The Dirty Shirt. Today I finally put these items to use.

I hooked up the hard drive and set it to backup the video and photo folders of our other external hard drive. I also made sure that that particular drive was up to date with my travel external hard drive. And if that is not anal enough I have another external hard drive of just Eva photos. The 1 TB FreeAgent XTreme will go into our fireproof lockbox. I will also find another safe place for the Eva hard drive and do my backups once each month. So now I have to set up a reminder message to myself for once a month backups.

Speaking of getting things done, today I finally picked up my glasses, the ones that were $200 more than the Zenni Optical ones that I am wearing right now. The company called me wondering why I hadn’t picked up the glasses in 4 months. Oops.

So I grabbed them, then stopped over at my Gym to cancel my membership. Gyms are such scams. I know that I paid 1st and last months fees but they said I have to bring my original paperwork back to confirm that. Really, they didn’t have that on file somewhere? I find that hard to beleive so tomorrow I bring them my paperwork.

Oh and I also got my car inspected. My plan to have it inspected at least one day into the new month after the last one expired is working. I figure if I do it for 12 months I get one year free. That is probably not what is happening but I like to think it is.

And I love On Demand by Comcast because they had Wolverine and the X-Men was on Nickelodeon for free. I also found Marvel on Twitter. I love that they are using Twitter. I’m going to find some of the other media sources that I love as well. Hey great, news IDW publishing is on twitter too! They are the people who do the Angel, Transformers and G.I. Joe comic books.