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If you see this timeline stagnate for more than a month, e-wack my knees (or just send me an e-mail). Unfortunately, Real Life© and an EverCrack addiction interfere with my ability to get this stuff quickly. Additionally, I now have Star Wars Galaxies, so even more online addiction. I'm trying to hold off on really getting into that, though, until after I get this stuff going

• 09 Sep 2003: DONE, uh... sorta. Day 4 is up, and I looked at the madness I would go through trying to identify all the characters in The Masquerade, Part One and The Masquerade, Part Two and let my natural laziness take over. The pages and pictures are up, but without any identification. Feel free to help me out by clicking on the update link below each picture. I've made it terribly easy for me to update things through this feedback, and corrections will usually be made within a day.

  Now I'm going to go play Everquest.

• 08 Sep 2003: Day 3 is up. Only 3 more pages left (lots of masquerade pix to go through), but I'm out of web space. I've ordered up some more.
• 01 Sep 2003: I've finished and put up the Preview Day, Day 1, and Day 2.
• 22 Aug 2003: Finally, I've gotten off my lazy butt and finished pre-processing my images. I took 687 pictures, for a total of 524 Megs of pictures. Part of the delay was my stupidity in finding a "safe" place to put 2 of the cd's that had Masquerade pictures on them. Nut that I am, I put them back on the spindle of blank discs.
• 14 Jul 2003: A new way to let you know when the pictures are up. Fill out the Pictures are up form and I'll send you e-mail when they're done. Just fill out the E-mail section, anything else will be ignored.
• 04 Jul 2003: Getting things set up for the next Con. You can see how devoted I am, sitting inside typing rather than outside BBQ'ing.

In order to make this page truely live up to the Useless name, I'm keeping the 2002 info around so you can see how lazy I am.

• 04 Oct 2002: Pictures for day three and day four are ready. All that's left is Masquerade pictures.
• 02 Oct 2002: Pictures for day two are ready.
• 01 Oct 2002: Pictures for day one are ready.
• 30 Sep 2002: I had to work around RL a bit, but I've now finished the pics for the Preview day. Where are they, you ask? Not up yet. I'm going to put them all up at once, and I should be done in the next day or two.
• 28 Sep 2002: Ok, finally a real full vacation. I've finished processing the pics, now all I have to do is figure out which ones to put up and add some cheesy-poof flavored text.
• 21 Sep 2002: I got hosed. That's all I can say. I was supposed to have a vacation last weekend, lasting from Wednesday through Monday. Except I got scheduled halfway through it and got called in for the rest. So I got some work done, and as many people have pointed out, uploaded some empty pages (didn't mean to do that), but I'm only halfway through the pre-processing. My vacation has been resheduled to go over next weekend, so, with luck and no more screw-ups, I should get it done by the beginning of October.
• 27 Aug 2002: Ohh boy... More problems, luckily of a minor nature. I had forgotten to "Spring Forward" on my camera, so the time stamp on my pictures was an hour off. Ok, Ok, not really a big problem, but it's important to me. I made a change to my script that renames the pictures to reflect the time they were taken, and it's all good now. Not counting the missing Saturday morning pictures, I took 724 pictures, with a total file size of 506.15 Megabytes (half a Gig!!). These files are now separated by day and my next step will be to run create thumbnails, and then run JpegTran on them in order to rotate the pictures that need to be (losslessly, that's what JpegTran does ) and then optimize the compression on them. That'll save me some diskspace (I know, diskspace is cheap these days, but I'm fussy that way).
• 27 Aug 2002: "Let me know it's done" e-mail address created. Address Removed, see above and I'll send you an e-mail to let you know when the pictures are all up. If you've already sent me an e-mail asking me to tell you when I'm done, go ahead and send me a new one at this address, just in case. At worst, you'll get 2 e-mail updates.

  VERY IMPORTANT: Make sure your e-mail address is there! BCC's and similar stuff will mean you lose out. It's not my problem if this happens .

  Important Legalese: I will not keep these addresses longer than it takes for me to mail you after I get the pictures up. I will not sell these names to anyone, I will not invade your privacy in any way. In fact, I won't even look at these e-mails, so any text you put in them is your own problem. They'll just get dropped into their own directory, from they'll sit until I'm done.

• Previous Work, done right after Comic-con, and before my Gen-con trip: I have copied all my pictures off of the CD's they were on (I use a Mavica CD-1000 camera, which writes the pictures onto mini CD's) and encountered a problem. The cheapy, no-name brand CD's I was using where coming up with errors!! CUSS, FRELL, BLEEP (fill in your own naughty words). I nearly lost an hour's worth of Masquerade pics. But after some hard work, persistence, and a lot of stress, I was able to recover all of the Masquerade pics except for one. Unfortunately, I still have to work on the one CD that has everything from Saturday morning, and I haven't recovered any of those at all. I've tried several cd recovery programs, but none have worked. If anyone has some suggestions, I'm listening.