November 2009

Finished our holidays now until 2010! We have been doing jobs around the house and garden.
Our son has his experience with the Tsunami wriiten up and just published in the December issue of 'Yachting Monthly'. He has now safely reached New Zealand.

My inkjet printer stopped working last week, I think the counter for the waste ink pad reached it's limit and I have not been able to find a program to reset it (Epson D78). I found another the same on Ebay as a 'catalogue return' so I ordered that. It was brand new unused and the ink cartridges ran out on the first day after printing about 20 A4 sheets. I fitted my continuous ink system from the old printer and off it went. I should be OK now for another three years!

I have spent a lot of time editing our holiday videos from France, Spain, Cotswolds and Mallorca. I bought the lhe latest version of Video Studeo 12 which is said to handle HD video just produced very poor quality rendered films. I have spent lots of time rendering films at different settings but always the results were jumpt with pixels breaking up. Finally I downloaded a trial version of Magix Movie editor and although tis is not so easy to use it does produce nice smooth films and I intend to buy a copy of this when I can.