Comments for Too many projects, too little time

Comment on End of 2011 and film photography by Paul Fodor

Paul Fodor — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:05:46 +0000

Happy New Year Joy!

Comment on Migrating from flickr to picasaweb by therider

therider — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:34:03 +0000

For me, the tags did port over.

However, for the titles, I need to write a script that will extract the titles from the xml file and add the caption in the .picasa.ini in the album folders (only those that are live/synced):

[yourfilename.jpg]
caption=[your caption]

After this, you need to switch off the “always scan” for that folder to “never scan”, and then switch back, so picasa reads the .ini file again. Now the captions will automatically sync to the web album.

Comment on Migrating from flickr to picasaweb by Abhijith Rao

Abhijith Rao — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:44:46 +0000

Joy,
I have chosen to download the albums with the XML option. I tried to upload a folder through Picasa in the web. But none of the titles and tags that the images have in Flickr port over. How do I achieve that?

Comment on Thanks, but no thanks by therider

therider — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:55:22 +0000

Abhijith, what a pleasure to hear this from you. I pity those once-active people who get shackled against their innermost voice and forever lose their wings.

Life is one big adventure and lets use the limited time and energy we have to its full potential.

Cheers brother, ride on and ride hard.

Comment on Thanks, but no thanks by therider

therider — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:49:49 +0000

Mausumi, it is not a justification, though it sounds like one. If you live here, you would find that even the western society is very pronatalist, but unless you live a very social life you won’t feel it like in India where neighbors and even strangers will play moral police on you. The primary reason of voicing these realizations is to help millions of young couples on the fence about this decision to see some light. Some unbiased, rational logic. If you are not aware already, half of the births in this country are unwanted, but thanks to the difficulty getting abortion and religious/emotional reasons, those unwanted kids grow up and become the absolute screwups I see everywhere. In india also, I can bet if there was no societal brainwashing, only the most responsible people would follow this path and as a result we would see a high quality young generation, getting a lot of help from non-parents who have time to volunteer and give back to society. Now that would be an ideal society to live in, don’t you think ?

Comment on Thanks, but no thanks by Abhijith Rao

Abhijith Rao — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:16:39 +0000

Joy!
I came here to check out the Flickr-Picasa move blog page, but the page I spent most time on is this. We’ve made choices similar to yours for reasons that sound eerily similar.

What you will notice is most times, the pressure and pro kid posts come from people living back in India than there. Its still to seep into the masses.

Being back here, its more of an ‘issue’.

Cheers!

Comment on Thanks, but no thanks by Mausumi

Mausumi — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:00 +0000

Joyda, it is perfectly alright to live a life of our own choice and I think we are not answerable to anyone for what we chose to do in life! Honestly, I don’t even see a point why you posted this on blog and trying to justify yourself! But I understand, you probably got sick answering “when are you guys going to have a kid?” It is something probably many living in western society don’t have to face, but things are different back home where we originally come from. yes, that happens in our society especially the society we belong to! When something or someone is not exactly the way we thought it should be, people get confused. Forgive their ignorance and do not bother

Comment on My crazy commute by Sineesh

Sineesh — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:12:16 +0000

Its really crazy dear joy..

Comment on Thanks, but no thanks by therider

therider — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:46:54 +0000

Economy is one of the reasons, and a very strong one. For most people at this point, this life changing decision is often the difference between solvency and bankruptcy.

Your arguments are based on the assumption that if I am worthwhile, then my child will also be, and probably the best of me and will drive my agenda. I would say this is quite a dangerous gamble to take. There is zero guarantee that junior will grow up to the expectation of parents. And when they don’t, which is often the case, the disappointment is not worth the 20 years of time spent in raising them, at least to me. Finances are a small fraction of the cost of kids, it is mostly the time and energy that I am reluctant to invest. For many the return is worth, I completely agree. For me, an unburdened life is priceless. I do enjoy the company of young kids of my friends, but I also know that the 24/7/365 commitment in raising one will never work for me.

Comment on Thanks, but no thanks by Chetan Narsude

Chetan Narsude — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:56:10 +0000

I think you have misunderstood a lot of a whole lot of things:
“Given the direction the global economy is heading, there is no way we could throw this life to the trash bin in one fell swoop.”

Having a child is not that dramatic event at least to your finances and life out of trash bin. It does need commitment in terms of time but then you get back a lot. A child is going to be your creation and most likely the best creation you would have. If you consider yourself worthwhile in this society, you are creating someone who is like you and probably is the best of you and will drive your agenda even after you.

so if you say, you do not prefer to have a child, it’s perfectly alright. But if you say this the reason and the reason is not right…