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I looked up what deficiencies could cause dry/chapped lips.
Based on various webpages I found, it could due to a deficiency of...
vitamin B2 (riboflavin), or B1, or B6, or B12, or A or C,
or of iron...
or it could be due to an overdose of vitamin A...
or it could be due to simple dehydration...


I suppose I'll take a multivitamin again today, and try to remember to drink more.

win7 command prompt file date display

After downloading photos I've taken with my digital camera to my computer, I generally edit the photos (crop/brighten/etc.) and rename them so that the file-name includes the date the photo was taken, as well as some descriptive text of the content of the image.

Before editing the photos, I've been in the habit of opening a command prompt and doing a directory listing of the photo files. The directory listing shows the original file-names along with the dates the photos were taken (the dates the files were last modified). This way, when I edit the photos in my image editor and save them (thereby changing the files' last-modified attribute), I can still see when the photo was taken, when renaming the files, based on the dates shown in the open command prompt window. Keeping a Windows Explorer window open on the directory does not offer the same functionality, because Explorer automatically refreshes the dates when the files are re-saved... Ah. I see now that when you choose to display the folder with the "Contents" view in Explorer, then it shows the dates the photos were taken (the file creation date, I presume), which is what I need.

But still, the reason for my bewilderment....
Here I am, using Windows 7. Yesterday, I downloaded photos from my camera to the computer, and today I edited a few of them. In the Explorer window, using the "Details" view, it shows the files' last-modified dates correctly. For the photos I already edited, it shows today's date. For the rest, it shows the dates I took the photos.

But when I do a directory listing of the same folder from a command prompt, it shows yesterday's date for the photos I did not edit yet. That is the date I downloaded them from the camera, not the date they were created or last modified! Then I tried using the "/tw", "/tc", and "/ta" options which are supposed to control which date is displayed (last written/modified, created, or last-accessed), but for all options, the listing still only includes yesterday's and today's date! There doesn't seem to be way of seeing the file's actual last-modified date from the command prompt window in Windows 7!

Oh, good golly, even worse....
Even in Windows Explorer, when you right-click an unedited photo file and view its properties, the created, modified, and accessed dates all show the date the photo was downloaded from the camera!

Maybe there's a Windows setting somewhere that lets you control whether a file's original dates are kept when it is copied from external media, versus the dates being updated to the time of copy? This never was a problem when using XP, and it doesn't make sense to me why the date functionality would have been changed.

When I copied my files from an external hard-drive to this computer, the files' last-modified date wasn't changed. That was after I had installed Windows 7. So why it is working differently when I'm copying files from my camera, than when I copied files from the external HD?

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Dang! I'm searching Google to find more info on the problem I wrote about in my previous post, and one of the items on the first page of results is my post. LOL

darkoshi: win7 command prompt file date display
Jan 16, 2010 ... Current mood: flummoxed. Entry tags: windows ... Here I am, using Windows 7. Yesterday, I downloaded photos from my ... That is the date I downloaded them from the camera, not the date they were created or last modified! ...
darkoshi.livejournal.com/333388.html - 15 minutes ago

more on the file last-modified problem

Well, I found a work-around. When I connect the camera to the computer and download the files using a USB cable, then the files' last-modified dates are changed to the current date. (That did not happen when doing the same thing on an XP machine.) But if I take the memory card out of the camera, and use the laptop's memory card reader slot to transfer the files, then the files' last-modified dates aren't changed.

I checked the Canon website to see if maybe I needed an updated driver for the camera, but the website says that XP, Vista, and Vista 64 don't require a driver (Win7 wasn't even listed).

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I shouldn't dwell on this issue anymore. I have a solution, or rather work-around, so I shall just use the memory card reader slot from now on.

Now, I may make brownies.

Or edit some photos.

Or search for a new color to put in my hair.

Or take Zorro for a walk in the rain.

Or search for a different shower fixture.

Ok now, do something and don't just think about doing them.

computer babble

With a widescreen laptop display, moving the taskbar to the left or right edge of the screen instead of having it at the bottom, gives your windows more vertical space. But when the taskbar is on the left or right edge, the Start button is always at the top. When you click the Start button, if you then want to click on "All Programs", you have to move the pointer a long distance downwards. It would make sense for the position of the Start button to be customizable, so that you could choose to have it at the bottom instead of the top.

The only way I've found to be able to change the color of scrollbars in Windows 7 from that boring gray-blue color, is to choose the Windows Classic theme, and then to customize the colors. I wish I could have Aero and have colorful scrollbars (etc.) at the same time.

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Using my laptop in conjunction with a regular wireless keyboard, I noticed myself leaning forward over the table a lot, in order to see the screen better. But I came up with a solution. I now have the laptop sitting on a large dictionary, with the front edge of the laptop sticking out over the edge of the dictionary. This way I can move the laptop closer to me, partially *over* my regular keyboard. It also raises the laptop display up so that I don't have to look down as far to see the screen.

I tried hooking up the laptop to my desktop's LCD monitor, since the monitor is larger than the laptop's display. But the screen doesn't look good when displayed on the monitor, like the laptop isn't able to output a high enough resolution to look good on the monitor.