If anyone's interested, I've posted photos from Day 1 of our Japan trip to the Japan blog.

Lifehacker posted a utility a while back called Exif Date Changer.  I used it to great effect on Sandra's Japan photos last night, to add 17 minutes (actually to remove 43 minutes from actual time) to bring all her photos into sync with the rest of ours.  

The data back up I did last week was done the night after I finished renaming my Japan photos. I also did a backup of those Japan photos to the same disk (which I wouldn't normally do because I do photos to a different disk).  So even though I was able to recover those files off my dying disk, I know I have a clean copy of them.

It's only a small start.  And there's still more I want to do (like actually labelling photos for my own records and locating them on Google maps) before progressing into further days..  And it's not like any of these photos are even from Japan...

But anyway, I've uploaded a few photos from Day 0 of our Japan trip into the travel blog (with a link to more (and bigger) photos from the day). 

Do people care?  Should I keep linking to the trip as I do each day?  Will anyone actually go and look? (Just asking so I know whether I should bother linking from here or let Google searches be my only traffic ;) )

• decide on when we were *actually at* locations in local Japan time (except for Sydney and first plane trip photos which are on Sydney time)
  
• put the date/time stamp on everyone's photos and put that into the file name of each file in consistent format
• fix problems with cameras still set to Sydney time, problems with times being an hour out because of daylight savings
• script renaming files by an hour or two or three where necessary (which included movies that didn't have exif data so were renamed in the first instance by date modified)
  
• fix mistakes in renaming by adding back an hour where necessary
• fix script problems that sometimes renamed 00 to 0
• fix days that sometimes went into the next day
  
• sort each day's photos into day directories
• triple check I haven't missed any
• fix problems with some of Sandra's files that lost exif data
• sigh over Sandra's camera being twenty minutes slow

Yeah so that about sums up my brain.
On the plus side, I now have all photos with a consistent and accurate time/date stamp on them, so will make sorting them out and picking highlights that much easier .....  (for me anyway - anyone else would just pick the ones they liked and be done with it ;) )

It's bin night tonight.  I don't think there's actually anything in the bin to be taken out.  One bag maybe.  And one or two inside. 

ok how boring am I when that's the most interesting thing I can think of to blog about tonight?  I don't even have any new photos..

oh all right, since you insist.. here's a photo Andrew took of us at Kinkakuji (the Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto.. :)

Easy solution.. just post photos.. :)

These things look pretty impressive but aren't hot.  Grew these myself and used them in a stir fry the other night


It be autumn around here..

Had everyone over to Nat and Andrew's for dinner and a Japan/China catchup.  Saw Natty's photos of China, and I showed them my 1300 Japan photos.  Was a pretty good night, but did go quite late.

Have several dvds of photos to look at now :)

So just got really depressed.  Natto wants to have a catchup night on Friday, so thought I'd make a push tonight to get through the first cull of photos.

Except I only got down to just under two thousand photos.  :(  That'd take about two hours to go through :(

Problem is, I'm going to have next to no time at my computer in the next 72 hours, so don't quite know how I'm going to get it all done in time... *sigh*

But here's our only other group shot of the trip, taken at the hotel in Hakone by Mac the owner, with his bonsai behind us:

Arms still hurt .. doh ..

Culled a bunch more Japan photos tonight. 

We had to go shopping tonight, so went out to dinner first.  Went to Central Cafe in Gungahlin again.  A tad on the pricey side, but not bad otherwise..

I had the chicken kiev (queen size)


Stu had calamari


And a few more photos from the past week..

Pretty clouds..


Stuffed portabella mushrooms (stuffed with the stems, tomato, zucchini and cheese)


Red leaves on a tree outside