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I've been playing around a bit with Lightroom - it's about as complicated a piece of software as I can handle for post-processing without getting frustrated and finding something better to do. The other night gave me some really good material to work with:
( low light, long exposures, and empty spaces... )

In other news... two things actually -
1. iOS7 seems to have killed wifi on my iPhone 4s. Which would be more annoying than anything if it weren't for the fact that some process or another is still running in the background that I can't kill and is draining my battery at an alarming rate. I've even gone so far as reset it to factory image, but no luck. We'll see what the Apple store people have to say about it today, even though it's off warranty. I feel naked without it at the moment.

2. Google's Photo is using Picasa as their in-browser photo editing tool now. This is probably old news, but new to me. I use the app and like it a lot for it's simplicity and control, as well as it not depending on a bunch of pre-set filters heavy on the retro look. (you can use those too, but they're not your only option)

*Eta: it's not iOS7 to blame, but one of the four hundred or so times I've dropped my phone that broke the antenna. Crud. Need Velcro fingers or something...

Filed under both "How Did I Not Know They Were Canucks!?" and "Most Fabulous Song Remake", I Wanna Dance With Somebody by These Kids Wear Crowns has me cranking the volume like Whitney never could.

Under "Shows I Did Not Expect To Like", BBC's Misstresses... a UK version of Sex and the City in premise only. I didn't like SATC, but Netflix kept insisting I would like Mistresses based on my previous picks, because it's in very much the same category as SeaQuest, Star Trek - The Voyage Home, Yellowstone Nation Park documentaries, and Curious George. Uh. Yeah. I don't think so. Algorithm!Fail. I caved and clicked because Orla Brady, who is waaaaaay too amazing looking at her age to be an adult Peter Bishop's mother, is listed as one of the main cast, and was pleasantly surprised to discover Anna Torv has a small role in the first season as well. (seriously, worth watching just for these two) The main difference between Misstresses and Sex and the City is that I actually like these characters and care about what happens to them; they're a group of college friends, regular women with regular (if somewhat pretty looking) lives, who makes choices and deal with the fallout, good, bad, or otherwise.

Favorite line of episode 1 (young daughters upon viewing their widowed mother putting on makeup for a coffee date with a single dad at school): "Mum! What did you do to your face!?"

And since categories are the name of the game today, "Scariest Software Upgrade Message Ever": "Restoring Factory Defaults" while upgrading the iPad to iOS 5.0, which was followed by the "Slide to Unlock" message showing up in Chinese. I've yet to upgrade my phone, but plan to this weekend once I've triple checked that everything is backed up (and not just relied on the iTunes backup features). This is a fulle iOS upgrade, not a cumulative one. If everything goes well, you do end up with some nifty features, including new ring tones, pop-up message notifications, wifi texting, and the ability to snap photos by using the 'volume up' button on the side of the device, instead of stabbing the screen with your finger. The iPad upgrade went mostly well. I did have to re-install all my apps, but could do so using the new iCloud featureto pick and choose from the ones I already had, instead of searching the App Store for them. This is my fault though for not ever actually synching my iPad with any one computer. (which I can now do over wifi)