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Does anyone know how to fix a corrupt camera card? I'm pretty sure it's the memory card because I switched with my old camera and it still won't download. Upload? I switched cords too and it still doesn't work. I used the cheap 16 MB card that came free with the camera and it downloads on both cameras just fine so that's why I think it's the memory card. I get a "communication error" message. The corrupt memory card is a Kingston 2GB memory card if that means anything. Cameras are Canon SD 1000 and SD 110.

The homecooking I can replicate easily enough but there's photos of a Korean cafe, two Vietnamese restaurants, a Taiwanese noodle house, Hong Kong cafe, Indonesian restaurant, and Thai restaurant that I hadn't gotten around to downloading yet. :( Man, I just realized I eat out too much. If no one knows how to fix it, I might try something ghetto like taking a picture of the viewscreen of one camera with another camera. It'll be blurry but at least you'll get an idea of what I'm talking about because I can't afford to revisit all those places so soon. Or maybe it'll just be another year before I accumulate enough photos again to post about those places.

August 7, 2008 Update: Yay! Thanks for the card reader suggestion Oren Mazor! Canon tech support also said the same thing. Love Canon tech support they're the best. My old SD 110 screen went purple and they fixed it for free and paid for postage too. Anyway, I went to Target and spent $4.99 on a USB card reader and managed to download all my photos. Yay!

Without cheating by clicking on the picture, can you name this city?

Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala) - Sweden: Beowulf and Burial Mounds

Just slightly north of Sigtuna, lies the archaeological area of Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala).

Though it wasn't that far away, HH was tired and wanted to take a break when we were only 2 km away. I so wanted to get there before the visitor's center closed. I pleaded. He was tired. And we ended up driving into a ditch, which required a nice passerby to stop and push us out. Eek!

We eventually made it and were greeted with this sight.


From the 3rd century A.D. onwards, Gamla Uppsala was an important religious, economic, and political center for the pagan Svear tribe, where Sverige (Sweden) got its name. The Swedish kings of the Yngling dynasty lived and were buried here. Gamla Uppsala was even mentioned in the Old English epic poem Beowulf. There's a walking path around nine large burial mounds, with English descriptions.

According to the Wikipedia section on Beowulf, an 1874 excavation of the mound of Eadgils, a semi-legendary king of Sweden, revealed confirmation of parts of the Beowulf story. In Beowulf, he gained the throne by defeating his uncle Onela. The excavation showed that around 575 A.D., a man, dressed in a suit of Frankish cloth with golden threads, was buried in a large barrow on a bear skin with two dogs and rich grave offerings. The offerings included a Frankish sword decorated with gold and garnets and a tafl game with Roman ivory pawns. There were four cameos from the Middle East which may have been part of a casket. All in keeping with someone of wealth and importance.

Blogging Courtesies: Questions, Comments, and Credit

Just a quick note: I've added a poll to the top of my sidebar to see what you would most like to see on the blog next. I find it easier to blog in bunches as I can bounce off of the previous post. The topics were drawn from a quick scan of my photos. If there's something you'd like but don't see on the list, just drop a note. I might have it somewhere in my queue. Please vote just once. You can click on more than one topic. I make no promises that I'll actually post in the order of what is most popular, but I might be persuaded to do so if there's enough interest.

The navigation bar has been moved to below my Foodbuzz ad until the poll closes at the end of the week.



Thank you cards, from the last time I was annoyed with the "internets."

I know I've said it before, but I just want to reiterate that my archives have recipes and restaurants subdivided by categories. Other topics are all sorted as well. Or you can use my searchbar. Or click on any of the tags.

Recently, I've been getting more and more emails from people who don't bother to do any of the above. What seems like a quick email that you shoot off to ask me something still takes time out of my day to answer. While I like hearing from all of you, it's frustrating to be continually hit with questions that can easily be answered if you either A) Googled B) Used my searchbar or C) Clicked on my archives. Multiply that by several emails every day, or questions in comments. Add in the amount of time it takes to sort through my photos, upload them to Flickr, watermark them to prevent sploggers from stealing my content, all before I even get to blogging. After I post, I still have to answer comments and sort the new post into its appropriate category and subcategory so you can find it more easily. So please use the archives, they took hours upon hours over the course of months for me to create, organize, and maintain.