“Condition Red! Blogging is eating up more and more system resources!”
The confluence of another term paper and grad school application deadlines, impending exams as well as a bout of illness make Zyl go orz. In addition, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by the Spring season. Plus I’m still in the process of catching up with the downloading of 90+ episodes of Keroro Gunso.
As such, I’ll be refraining from blogging, episode by episode, the new series - most of those that I’m interested in (Strawberry Panic, Simoun, Girls’ High, School Rumble Nigakki, xxxHOLiC) are already getting good coverage within the blogging community. Also in keeping with my desire not to reinvent the wheel, I’ll only be making the occassional foray either to gush, mock or vent.
One of my former bosses use to tell me that “Necessity is the mother of invention but its true father is laziness. If people weren’t lazy, there’d be no incentive to be efficient.” Being both lazy but wanting to continue blogging fun, I’ve also decided to re-engineer my blogging sub-processes.
I’m still keeping a fairly image intensive style as character-focused screencapping is one of this blog’s raison d’etres. Lots of potential for economising though with respect to processing of screen captures - mainly from automation. File renaming is now being done via BSplayer’s Options > Preferences… > Capture File Name Format. For Keroro Gunso (which is mainly in RVMB format), I’ve finally read the documentation to enable the image capture function in MPC with Real Alternative. The other significant time-saver is the use of Photoshop’s Automate > Batch to record the SOP of image resizing, sharpening, save for web (to minimize file size) - now all done with one click. Phew! I don’t know how I managed to do without it for so long! If anyone has got suggestions or experiences to share regarding blogging efficiency, I’m all ears!
