is because I’ve been working on the postcard site.
It’s scary how much I’ve forgotten about code stuff. Real scary. I’ve got a couple of the template pages done, I have to relearn how to do the coding for the java applet cards (you know, that stuff that looks really cool, like a lake effect or snow or rain or a jigsaw puzzle or…or…or…).
And I realized how very, very bad most of the original photos look. When I originally did them, it was at a time when there was no such thing as cable or DSL internet. Everybody was on dialup. So, I compressed the graphics so that they wouldn’t choke a browser and not load up. Since my scanner’s pretty old, I did a search and found a nice one, should be here next Monday. Yep, I’m going to rescan all of the pictures and redo them.
Something I found out today from one of my Bay area buds, that there's a problem when you save a JPEG. Not when you open it and close it, but if you do something to it and save it. No matter what you use as a compression, from 100% to 0%, you lose some quality. Pretty surprising, huh? With my digital images, I usually make a copy (recall my complaints earlier this month about PSP v.11) to work with and don’t mess with the original at all. But even just downloading a JPEG from the camera, you lose some of the quality (note to self, see if there’s another option for saving images on the camera). Most are invisible to the human eye, but still….
And I still have the end of the year payroll reports to get done. Shouldn’t take a lot of time, I’ve got the basics done, just have to fill in the forms and sign the checks.
I did some ironing this afternoon, I can’t believe how long it takes to iron one long sleeved shirt. I did eleven of them. Brian should be set for at least a week.
Anyway, that’s about it for now.
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