The Language of Flowers Deux

In honor of a tradition that dates all the way back to last year, here are gift tags that feature Victorian flowers and the hidden messages they convey (not all of which are flattering). Each tag is about the size of an index card and has been altered to enhance its vintage appeal. May they make your holidays a little happier.

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The Dreaded Spinning Beach Ball of Death

It's what you see on Mac OSX when an application isn't responding: a whirling little rainbow ball, so cheerful. When you see it spinning for Finder, it's chilling.

Today I had to force repeated hard starts before I discovered that the problem isn't the computer but the external hard drive. Whew. I mean, eeek! The external hard drive where I keep bajillions of images stored with only limited backup because I ran out of space? Now I'm frantically skimming the internet to see if I should buy even bigger storage or just store online. Not that online servers don't fail...

Is there a patron saint of digital storage who can protect my precious cache? Maybe these pretty cherubs will watch over things. They are a detail from an old lithograph that was embellished with German scrap.

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