Why is it that....

This little angle faced boy is soon to become a tall gangly (and I'm afraid to say a little spotty) eighteen year old. At the end of January he officially becomes a man and will hopefully start behaving like one.

He has already had his main birthday present. We bought him a top of the tree Macbook Pro and some photography software for him starting his Photography course at college in September. He isn't expecting much else as it all cost a pretty packet. But parents being parents and all that we are intending to buy him a few surprises too. One of which is hopefully a photo book of him growing up, holidays and other significant events over the last 18 years.

I'm trying to upload all the photos of him that have been saved in the big photo box - the ones before the age of digital photography! (and along with the 500 or so honeymoon, wedding and holiday photos that I also intend to upload at some time in my life!)

The thing is...

The nifty little hand scanner gadget I bought specifically for the cause about 2 years ago insists on putting a big line right through the middle of the picture and I don't know why.

I suppose I will have to go and sit in the cold spare junk room and spend as long as necessary using the all in one jobby that probably won't work first time and will need lots of tinkering on with to get it to synchronise and scan properly.

Why is it that.....whenever I want to do something, something technical always nacks it up and makes life difficult for me.