A Day in the Life

Well, it is about time to develop a new blog template. Andrea made a new layout in Photoshop and now I get to put it together. It is a lot of fun to have the challenge of making someones vision a functional website. Also, it will be nice to have a new layout to look at. So keep you eyes out in the next week or so and we should have a new blog theme.

So Andrea took the Photoshop class from BYU and loved it.  She has been playing around with Photoshop ever since.  I think it is neat because Photoshop skills are a thing that you can always use.  And if she can compensate for our poor photography skills that is great all in itself.

It is that time of year again when everyone is trying to send out a Christmas card as a year in review.  It is a difficult job to find a good photo of the whole family.  This year, Andrea took on the job of making my families Christmas card.  She touched up all the photos, and made us all look better.  Take a look and let us know what you think about Andrea’s first Photoshop Christmas Card.

So tonight my sister called me with a computer problem. She said, “Can your hard drive just stop working or something because I turned on my computer and all of my documents and pictures were gone”. Well this was weird, and I didn’t really know what to say. I asked a few questions and everything appeared to be right. I told her to just come over and we could take a look.

When she got here we turned on the computer and it prompted her with the normal Windows XP login. When all of the personal settings were loaded (which took forever), the desktop was blank and the My Documents lead to a blank folder with the sample Music and Photos. It basically looked like a virgin install of XP.

Well I accidentally clicked on the Picasa icon and the program started up. Right away, the program started finding all of the files on the hard drive. As it turned out, all of the files on her computer weren’t gone, Windows had just gotten all messed up. Somehow, and I don’t know how yet, the registry or something was changed, because a new used file had been created named ‘TEMP’ and all of the shortcuts were remapped to those folders.

Even though I don’t know exactly why things got all messed up, at least the files were not deleted. That would have been the worst. We backed them up to an external hard drive and then tried to run a virus scan and spy ware remover. They both ran and of course found nothing. Likely I will just reinstall the OS and all of the documents so her computer will be healthy again. So even though It isn’t fixed, Picasa helped us find the missing files in a jiffy. Thanks Picasa, therefore, thank you Google!