Technology and "proprietarian-ship"

So now I have a techno project. I wasn't planning on having a techno project.

The project I want to do is take out the shower door in the trailer, and just put up a rod with shower curtain. The shower door is an accordion, metal frame, glass panels door. I would post a picture, but that's part of my problem.

I want to send a picture(s) to a friend to get advice. I took a few pictures, then realized I needed the flash to be off (too much glare reflecting from the metal frame). So that took quite a few minutes.

Note to self, next time take the reading glasses, even when there is "no reason" I'm going to need them.

So now I just need to upload the pics, attach to an e-mail, and go do something else exciting for the day, right? No-ooo. This cute little laptop doesn't have the Canon driver loaded. Go to canon.com, and there is no driver for Vista operating systems. So I need to fire up the desktop and do the upload there.

Properietarian-ship? I just coined that word. Why should I even need a driver? The camera should have a nice little .jpg or .bmp file, and I should plug it in through the USB, and I should be able to transfer it just like I'm dealing with any other drive partition. But Canon has it set up so I have to use their proprietary software to get to my own pictures. Except they don't have the software I need for my machine!

Some day, eventually, I also need to flash-drive pictures (not so much of the shower, but all our other treasured family pics) to this laptop so they can go to the 1.5TB backup drive. That is so very much not happening today.

I love computers. I love number too -- a post for another day about the evil numbers I have been wrestling lately. Really, they are possessed.

Okay, off to the evil desktop PC. Hope your bits and bytes are behaving themselves!