Entries from June 2007 ↓

Between Wayne, my mom and myself took about 2000 pictures over our two weeks in Peru. They were all named random stuff like IMG_1985.jpg. I figured to get them sorted, I’d name them according to their dates. Once I got it done I discovered that Wayne’s camera is off by 12 hours. After I did a little research I found that there’s a handy Linux utility that’s exactly what I need:

jhead -ta-12:00 -model SD500 *jpg

To do the renaming then is:

jhead -n%Y:%m:%d_%H:%M:%S *jpg

Gallery has died again. It’s getting kinda irritating since it tends to do so about every month or so. I don’t think it is really the gallery program’s fault entirely. I suspect that Dreamhost is cutting the processes off early and it isn’t handling it well.

It’s a pain not only because of the outage but also because I have to reload everything. There’s too many pictures though and it chokes. Even after loading them incrementally, I still lose the captions. (Version changes kept me from restoring the database.)

Flickr is cool. I like the geotagging and community bits. I’m tempted to drop the $25 to create an account for a year. (Since it will take a while to upload 10gb of photos 100mb at a time. Though smugmug looks pretty good, but it’s $40. There’s also Picasa which would be $25 for 6.25gb.

Honestly I’m frustrated since I have hosting. It’s kinda sad that there’s not a FLOSS offering that works well. I love the idea of trying to write one myself, but who’s got the time? Maybe someday.

Back from Peru and getting caught up on work. Trying out this YouTube thing all the kids are into nowadays.

There’s a homeless fellow who lives on the block outside MPP’s office. He begins each week reminding everyone to “hang in there” and as the week progresses he keeps a count of the number of days left till the weekend. Today I learned that he is also a blogger.