Rework!

Many, many years ago I used to write software for a living, so perhaps it is no surprise that the main bit of software I use for managing my photographs is something which I wrote myself.  It uses 3rd party software for image manipulation, etc, but the software for doing captions, tags, renaming, filing, handling different time zones sensibly, etc, is all my own creation.
 
It works better than anything I have ever found in the public domain but I have had a growing issue for some time with the way I decided to format captions back in 2002 when I got my first digital camera (nothing to write home about) and I started scanning all my negatives and slides.  I wish I knew back then what I know now ...
 
The revised captioning system is a vast improvement, but it has meant that 54,000 photographs have had to be ‘corrected’, checked and then backed up.  It is taking ages!  So I currently have 3 computers churning away updating all of my photographs, regenerating my Photo Diary (which is on DVDs and is also in AVI format for memory sticks; it goes back to 1983) and ensuring everything is backed up (I have a master photo library and 4 backups of it – photos are precious, I’d hate to lose any).
 
So I could have taken photos today – nothing for me to do, the computers are doing it all apart from changing DVDs in the DVD writer – but I can’t actually process any new photos at the moment.  So my blip today is just a photo of my laptop, as it has been for quite a while, with a remote desktop connection to my old desktop machine which is regenerating DVDs and a Telnet session to my Linux machine which is checking everything and backing up the modified JPEGs (just about automatically, but I have to manually check a few things from time to time).
 
It has been great fun ;-(  Thankfully it will all be complete this evening.