Cooking Night Continues

I'm nearly 6 hours into this marathon cooking session. Sure a couple of hours were all in the preparation, and for one I mostly watched neighbours. But still, this is turning out to be quite an evening. It better taste good tomorrow.


The kitchen still in a messy state with batch 2 brewing on the hob.



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Cooking Night

Welcome! You join me here on a cooking night. I'm set to prepare enough food to feed about 18 people at tomorrows Southampton Uni SCM meeting. We always prepare a veggie meal and tomorrow it's me. I'm cooking a vast vat (make that two) of tofu stroganoff and a mountain of rice. Here are some photos through my iSight webcam taken just before 12 pm. I've just about finished the first batch and am about to move onto the next if only I can find some way of storing the first. Hmmm... tricky.


Chef Nick - this is merely a small glass of wine to see what it tastes like.


Here is most of the available work surface filled with debris.


It's only a small kitchen, but I like to fully utilise it :)

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iPhoto Feedback with Added Insault

Gee, here's a ground breaking suggestion: what about adding a percentage option to the export function?

I've sent in enough suggestions for give up filling the information in the boxes below. One of these days you might actually think about your customers and actually respond. Or alternatively just steal my suggestions and pretend they were your own.

Yes, you might have picked up I'm disillusioned with iPhoto - I can't for the life of me understand how you qualify to be a part of Apple.



iPhoto, iPhoto is crap, photography

Just For My Records

As Apple never respond to any feedback I send, nor do they copy the feedback form to my address I'll post it here for future records.

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In the next OS version you need to include something that provides the user with some feedback as to whether or not the battery calibration sequence has been performed correctly.

I've had my MBP a few months and have tried a number of times to calibrate the battery (not because I was getting erroneous readings, but just in case). I tried again last night, leaving it over night after the battery ran out and it went into hibernation. When I came down this morning the glowing led had gone out so I juiced her back up to full (green). When I then booted the screen came up initially greyed out with a progress bar. Could this be the calibration conformation?

Ideally I'd like to inform my MBP that I'm going to do a calibration run so that we are both prepared.

Cheers,
Nick Bailey



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I Hate iPhoto - my latest feedback complaint

Bollocks to iPhoto.

Yet another problem with your shit code. iPhoto won't let me import a folder that is presently in the Library folder. You might think this a strange request (by the look of your code you evidently don't think much about those who might want to actually use your program). Owing to the fact that I can't import shots from my camera into more than one folder at once (you fools), I've had to import all the photos from two days into one Library folder. So naturally I want to split this folder into two.

Can I do this in the iPhoto library window? No. Of course not! That would be far to useful.

So I pop along to the Library folder in Pictures and manually split the folder in two. So now back in iPhoto what do I see? Can you guess? Why look - there is the old 'roll' with both days of photos in - but I've removed that folder so where are these images been taken from? Who knows. I doubt you could rub any brain cells together and find out, but we all live in hope.

Come on people? Is Apple, the makers of OSX (quite a nice bit of software) really employing a bunch of monkeys at typewriters like your selves.

You need people like me to beta test your software and point out these blatant shortfalls in the code.


I hate iPhoto, iPhoto, Photographs