For a long time, my photography blog has been neglected. This is largely because at the time I was concentrating solely upon my bus conversion blog and the real life creation of my home in an old school bus. That's pretty much completed though there are a few small things remaining to do.
Meanwhile, my much-loved 2007 MacBook began to act up in about 2014. I gave it a new battery (which gave out after just two weeks) and upgraded the operating system too. By 2019 it became pretty evident that the MacBook was pretty much dead. Sure - I gave it yet another new battery and even put a new hard drive in it but never could get it to work properly. Then I tried Linux on it and it still refused to work correctly.
As MacBooks are over $1,000 I have not got a new MacBook this time. Instead I got myself a cheapie Asus E203MA for $250 and tried it. I was not greatly impressed that Windows 10 seemed to be more eye candy than substance. Nor was I impressed by the fact Windows 10 left only 10GB free from a 64GB hard drive.
In the past I have been a bit dismissive of Linux. I'm not thrilled about the fact that the image processing software is so fragmentary but what's available seems a lot better than that Gimp thing that was out a few years ago. Coming also from years of using iPad and Android tablets, it's almost strange to have to go to a website to use social media.
I'd bought an old IBM laptop which was warrantied for 3 months by the secondhand vendor. Pretty much a week after the warranty was up, something died on it. I spent money and bought a part then fixed it and it worked for a while longer then a different part went out. By the time this had gone for a further 3 months I'd spent as much as I'd paid for it in spare parts and never had a truly functioning laptop. In the end I looked at the costs and figured I'd spent most of the price of a new laptop on what was effectively a door stop. Rather than blowing more money, I stripped it to sell it for parts via ebay and didn't have a single taker. In the end, after 6 months of trying to sell the equivalent of a turd, I threw the whole thing on a bonfire and just burned it.
I'll keep the hard drive from my MacBook because I'm pretty sure I will get myself a new MacBook one day. The MacBook itself is probably not even headed for eBay. I have such rotten luck trying to sell anything on eBay that I largely don't bother. Those that have longer memories will recall it took forever to get rid of most of my Canon camera gear. I still have one lens that I'd like to sell and somebody that's got interest but not the money. I dropped a ton of money on Canon stuff.
By contrast, when I bought my Olympus kit, I spent the least possible and bought it all secondhand. I have no complaints. I'm very happy with it. Of course the reason I bought new with the Canon was due to unholy influences from a third party that clouded my rationality. I'd also been sold on the idea of running a photography business which really was a load of nonsense. Instead I should have been concentrating on improving my C++ and writing some software that would have got me noticed.
Anyway, the photography blog is alive and well.
