February 7th, 2009
I was in Hawaii for just over a week a month ago and all of those pictures are finally online for viewing. I’ve been using Aperture to do my photo editing, and I’m slowly building up a collection of keywords that I use to manage various overlapping collections of pictures. Two of the major classes of keywords I use are related to answering “who?” (such as Tristan) and “where?” (such as Hanauma) type questions. I also have a bunch of keywords related to intended uses and projects that I feel no need to share. Having every picture in the photo gallery tagged with “Gallery” would be pretty pointless.
Aperture doesn’t have a way to limit the keywords inserted into a photo’s metadata on export, nor does Gallery appear to have a way to limit keyword exposure short of turning off metadata exposure. Looking for a command-line tool I could use to script away my keywords, all I found was libexiv2 which includes a dinky little command line tool that doesn’t quite do enough. So I wrote my own and now my keywords are happy and I’m never doing this again.
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January 25th, 2009
On Friday I went to the Video Games Live show at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre. Essentially, take game music from across the ages and adapt it to an orchestra. For more modern games set to recorded music with lyrics, there’s also a choir. I particularly enjoyed the Civilization 4 and Halo themes, and I still have a thing for some of the Sonic level themes covered. That’s not all there is to it though, there’s quite a bit of variety in format and group interactivity. All in all, I look forward to the next time they stop by.
A few disclosures:
- The set list changes, so you may hear something different.
- Seattle might have had special treatment. This was the location of the first show four years ago. We’re also in the right town to have the Halo composers on site for the live debut of the Halo 3 ODST trailer music.
- I went with some of the intern game crew, and someone knows someone who knows someone, because we had the best seats in the house. Wow.
That said, it’s icing on the cake. It would have still been a great show without those things. It may be of interest to the Texas crowd that there’s a show in Austin on March 28.
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