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My Family Photos - and ODF

I was staying with my parents a few years ago, and looking through a shoe box of old family photos. It was great, I was really enjoying them - until it occurred to me most of the photos were singletons. That is, they were the only copies. On earth. And of at least one individual from my family's past, there were only two or three photographs in existence. Yipes. A shoe box, I thought. How archaic, right? What if there were a flood, or heaven forbid, a fire? These are photographs I want to share with my family, and to pass along for generations. I want my children to know their history. And their children and their children. So I did what any good son would do, I convinced my parents to let me abscond with the box, I returned home, and I scanned the photos (and returned the box). And then the scanned photos were sitting on my hard drive. On my laptop. In my kitchen (that's where my laptop lives). Given what daily happens in my kitchen, that was probably less safe than a shoebox. So much for archaic. Strike one. So I made a few DVD's. And distributed them around my house, and gave some to other family members. Suffice it to say, most non-professional system administrators are non-professional for a reason - most of the DVD's were lost. Strike two. But good news, someone bright once said the network is the computer - I decided a while back to upload them to my on-line photo service. If you're going to watch a ...


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