Honestly I can’t remember what I did the last leap year but I do remember what I did the one before that though. That was the year my wife and I got married but more to the point, the day after our families met for the first time as we started the process of becoming man and wife.

This year though, I am at home with the kids and they have just finished their school tests. Nigeria played Rwanda at Kigali for the 2013 Nations cup coming up in January and played 0-0. I read a few devotionals today and realized that while some of them recognized today and even talked about the beauty of its once in four years occurrence, most I guess assumed that when the time comes you will already have a newer version of the devotional but I actually saw one that was printed in January 2012 and it still stopped at 28 Feb I still wonder why that happened.

This is a once in 4 years date. When I was younger I used it to know when Olymics event will take place or took place, now it is an opportunity to do something that you can only repeat in 4 years. BBC world service celebrated 80years today under a big tent at the Bush House Building it sounded like a party. Tomorrow is March 1 and we are back to routine. To all the people celebrating have a nice one see you in four year. A day like this should not go uncelebrated…for all those whose birthday is today good for you for you are special and for the rest of us, this is such a good day. Have a wonderful time

Happy Leap Year everybody!

I have a lot of things I want to do and need to do maybe sometime in the future I will put out a list here and see how far I have come with getting them resolved.

Most of them are pushed to the future because they are not particularly urgent and I just might have a work around of course my routine has a big impact on what enters the important and not urgent list.
Well one of such things finally caught up with me and that is clearing out the space on my hard drive. Over the last few months I have been going through occasional cleaning of my hard drive especially the download folder. But in the last 2 months I downloaded some podcast from iTunes, some courses from the iTunes U and downloaded the pictures of my mother-in-law’s birthday (story which will be told later) with my new camera which packs more megapixel than previous. All these ensured that I went way below my 20% minimum hard drive space. Once I observed this, there were 2 options opened to me, First was to get a bigger hard drive so I can let everything remain the way it was with more space but then it was a matter of only delaying the inevitable. The next option was to do the clean up. And this I did, albeit not totally rather just to deal with the main issues, moving the pictures and the iTunes library.

The iTunes library was simple enough, I just followed this guide and all it took was the time to move the files, while I left the library file on the desktop, I can live with that as well as it makes moving to another computer say a Macbook Air easier.

Moving the pictures on the other hand was not something I was so eager to tackle because I had read a few blogs and they all sounded complicated more over, my confidence was not helped by people complaining about how following some of the advice messed up their library. The complication was not in moving the pictures, that is just a drag and drop thing. the challenge was how Adobe Lightroom 3 was going to handle the move. To my greatest surprise, it was very easy.

This is what I did:

I moved all my pictures folders that were in the Picture folder to a new folder and named the new folder “my shots” while I left the lightroom catalog file in its folder in the Picture folder.

Then I launched lightroom and of course as expected, it complained that it could not find my pictures, then I right clicked on the main folder which lightroom identified as the current location of my pictures and I directed it to the new folder(this trick I learnt here) which now contains the pictures and lightroom did the rest. So I succeeded on all fronts and now I have more space on the hard drive, my pictures are now on the external hard drive and my iTunes library can grow as much as it wants to.

Well, since I had a few things to say about lightroom in this post, I might as well add that Ligthroom 4 beta has been released and it has a lot of good new features as well as improvements on some old features like the Develop module. Now you have more precise control over how your picture comes out. You can give it a spin here,

My name is Jide Ajayi. I love the web and the possibilities that the web has brought our way. With the web, the world has become smaller and people feel closer and we all talk of the global village because the social media makes so many things that were stuff of dreams a few years ago such reality today.

I am new to blogging, I have said that a few times over the last few years whenever I have attempted to start blogging and after a few posts, I just sort of go on to other things.

So why is it different this time around? Well 1) it is a new year and with it comes resolutions and all the promises to be a better person and achieve a lot of the things that one has pushed back the previous years. 2) I have developed a habit of taking people’s pictures, relatives, friends and what have you and I have such a modest library of the shots that nobody gets to see so this is an opportunity to post some or all of those shots and get people to view them online and see what type of work I have been doing behind the lens. 3) In the last few years, I have come to appreciate the fact that we all have a voice and there is a yearning to be heard, to contribute to the body of knowledge working with the experience of the culture at this end of the world 4). Life is short and things left undone may never be done so I might as well start it now 5) and I will stop here, I just got my very own website and I am so excited about that fact when I think that my first serious encounter with the internet was in 1997 and so many years later I finally have my site.

The plan is to write something new at least every week but then it may just become more frequent.

Thanks for reading I really appreciate the interest and time.

Have a wonderful day 😉