Two days, two days, to check ssd/hdd model numbers against non commercial websites. SMS is a deal breaker but instead of being able to look at a model number and say “aha, this series uses SMS and the other CMS” no, now they’re interspersed. Oh no. Did I create a basic or dynamic disk… nope…
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Rescued files
Oh thank goodness. The data that was lost was the directions to the files. A simple recovery tool found 800K of them, and I was able to recognise files I deleted deliberately and files that weren’t. So yoink, got them copied at least the images and documents, I’ll need to go through to find the…
I don’t know what to do
I’ve just lost thousands of files in trying to organise my saved files from my old sites. I have back ups, I do, but at what point do I just give up? It’s been 20 years of my work being destroyed- physical, digital, online, and reputational. It’s my time, it’s my health, and it’s my…
The rain it raineth every day
I’m incredibly lucky that I did decide to keep my OS on a small hard drive and to keep all my data separately stored and backed up. Because yesterday I got the dreaded black screen of death. Technically I shouldn’t have. I was able to grab my data to do the simplest clean install. But…
A Comedy of Eras
Oh dear. So I’ve spent years pecking at records trying to explain my understanding of what a Stickelchen is- mostly trying to break my theory, and I haven’t been able to do so. I’ve also just spent the week sorting thousands of documents and fragments of documents only to find a single screen capture that…
Will the Real Paper about the Real Stickelchen Please Finally Stand Up
Pretty sure that I’ve lost most of my intended audience with what began as a simple paper comparing written and visual evidence of just What The Frock in on Anne of Cleves’ head. But it really is both extremely simple and incredibly complex. I did work out what one major barrier is for those of…
OMGOMGOMG
First a detour- some of my work is being used in wikipedia and wikicommons entries. Only one so far hasn’t included me as the source. But it has put a bit of pressure on me to publish. I have better quality images, and I have new images. It’s slow going though. But I’ve finally got…
Falling in love with the North Rhine again
I’ve been radio silent for some time. I’m finally pulling through. And in the last few days I’ve really delved into my collection of portraits of women (and girls) of Cologne to add to my timeline of portraits. I’ve got so many new images, and really exciting ones, that confirm that my early use of…
Patterning updates
Not just of access to online resources but my own. I’m working on making them available on my website. However in this protracted process of trying to reconcile my digital archives of my life and research I’ve had multiple drives destroy my work. At this point I can’t tell which they are but I suspect…
Finally some success
I had at one point decided to take all my own references out of my year by year photo archives but I think I need to keep them in that one place. It’s a record of what I knew and when. I’ve done the same with my costume photos. And I’ve found a huge lot…