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Answer Book

Robert — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:33:17 +0000

Sometimes we want answers and there are moments when we need answers. On November 21, 2005 I needed more answers than I had questions for. My father passed away from a sudden heart attack which rocked my world. Within hours of my father’s passing, my mom remembered that my dad had “the answer book”. We glanced through it and were amazed at the answers to some of our questions and questions to come were in the book. Answers ranged from his wishes, contacts, location of important information, etc…

I am not sure of the source that my parents attained a copy but over the last few years I have created a digital copy and made some updates in some of it’s original lingo.

It is my hope and prayer that this may be of use to you and your loved ones as we never anticipate our heavenly birthday but in that event I hope we can each so our best to provide our loved ones some answers to make the process smoother for them.

Drop me a line if you have further questions or comments about the answer book.

download answer_book.pdf

Answer Book by Robert Mitchell is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

sentenc.es

Robert — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:03:34 +0000

I came across sentenc.es on a couple retweets on Twitter.

Simply put, It is a challenge to avoid extra words that we often put in messages and streamline it.

Between a text message and a status update on facebook or Twitter.

Think about the time saved by condensing it all down to four sentences just like this post.

How to organize Photos

Robert — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:26:43 +0000

Photos are a huge blessing and curse. We have moved from a age of stacks of photos stuff in shoe boxes, to an age of photos scattered around our computer’s hard drive. I have done several slide shows and the main pain always comes down to 1) When was the photo taken? 2) Who is in the photo? 3) Where was the photo taken?

Some tips from my experience to help in organizing digital photos and scanned photos so that you don’t have multiple DSC0120, IMG5612, etc…

{STEPS}

Create a NEW folder called YEAR. (i.e. “2009″)
Create a NEW folder called TEMP within YEAR (i.e. “2009″ > “TEMP”
Whenever you bring pictures off your camera, load them into your TEMP folder!
Go through and delete bad, close to duplicates, etc…
Using a program like Adobe Bridge, Google’s Picassa. Do a batch rename of all you files to the date created as YEARMONTHDATE (i.e. 20090609_001.jpg, 20090609_002.jpg or 20090609_robert heather in backyard.jpg, 20090609_grace abraham in the pool.jpg
Tag each of your photos with keywords (i.e. name, place, etc…) Keywords can be whatever you want. The key is to use words that will help you in being able to do a search for photos later using the keywords assigned to each of the photos.
Edit the photos as needed (i.e. crop, lighten, darken, etc…)
Now you can move these photos to the “YEAR” folder or subfolder (i.e. “2009 > “01-03_Jan_Mar”, “2009 > “04-06_Apr_Jun”, or however you want to name you subfolders.)

The overall key is to first place the photos in a general TEMP folder so that you know these photos have not been looked through. They need to be renamed, tagged with keywords, edited, etc… Once they are in the overarching YEAR folder, you know that these are the photos you wanted to keep and importantly to find quickly and view the photos you were looking for.

Please comment if you have questions or other digital photo organization tips to share.