It’s Christmas
I’ve been a-dancin’ around the house with the kids – Pogues on the speakers.
ImageMagick and batch files
I borrowed a film scanner this week – and I’ve been scanning old (and crappy quality) APS films to TIFF files. The results are pretty good – considering the limitations of APS.
Here’s the stunning Taj Mahal, Agra, India taken in August 2001.
I needed to convert around 2000 TIFF files to something that was useful on the photo album – JPEG. I decided on ImageMagick – it’s open source, free and really comprehensive.
I love ImageMagick – it’s a core part of the image resizing and conversion for my online photo albums.
I wrote a one line batch file for Windows to do the conversion:
for %%f in (*.tif) do c:progra~1imagem~1.7-qconvert %%f %%~nf.jpg
Nice use of the macro – the %%~nf will strip the filename out of the full filename %%f. Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 2003 server allow this – HELP FOR gives the full detail; it’s buried quite deep.
ITIL v3 Foundation
I’m in Provo for a couple of days – sitting on an ITIL v3 Foundation course.
The main reason – it’s a cheap and convenient way to sit the exam..
I can’t sit the electronic exam at Prometric in Utah until the New Year. If I was in London I could do it today. Strange how electronically delivered tests take so long to roll out.
Unix admin
Who said Solaris admins are bearded, 280 lbs and over 50?
Six degrees and Dan Clark
I was at the Novell Global Sales Conference in Orlando, FL all of last week.
Final evening – Saturday – we had the final wrap ups and call to action; followed by Dan Clark – the motivational speaker.
He was actually pretty good; and did well making his time personal to Novell and the audience.
Later that evening I was talking to my friend Rick Fowles – and mentioned that Dan made a funny Northern Ireland joke. Rick just grinned and said – “I know – I did my mission with him in Belfast”.
Small world. Proving Six Degrees of seperation is true once more.
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