100km week
At the start of last week I set myself the goal of riding 100 kilometres during the week. Despite a couple of rainy days and being busy, I made it... I'm very proud of my little self now. [icbm: home]
Frank Arrigo discovers Steve Walsh’s free wireless
Steve Walsh from CLUG is associated with the free Internet access at the Pancake Parlour in Canberra. It's a small planet.
This looks handy, subway maps for mobile devices
Subway maps formatted for Playstation Portable.
Mont 24 hour race
The Mont 24 hour race (a mountain biking event in Canberra) is coming up. I'm thinking about coming along to take some pictures... Hopefully they'll be as nice as this one taken by Big Headed Simon. [icbm: home]
75 kilometres last week
It would have been more, except I was away on the weekend. I haven't gone riding yet this week -- it's been too wet. [icbm: home]
ImageMagick bug?
Subject: imagemagick: If the trailing character of a montage label option is a percent sign, the output image is erroneous Package: imagemagick Version: 6:6.2.3.6-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Executing this command line: montage -geometry +10+10 -tile 2 -label "-sepia-tone 15%%" \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20a.jpg -label "-sepia-tone 35%%" \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20b.jpg -label "-sepia-tone 55%%" \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20c.jpg -label "-sepia-tone 75%%" \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20d.jpg ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20.jpg Whereas this command line: montage -geometry +10+10 -tile 2 -label "-sepia-tone 15%% " \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20a.jpg -label "-sepia-tone 35%%" \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20b.jpg -label "-sepia-tone 55%%" \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20c.jpg -label "-sepia-tone 75%%" \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20d.jpg ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20.jpg Produces the expected output: -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages imagemagick depends on: ii libmagick6 6:6.2.3.6-3 Image manipulation library imagemagick recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
ImageMagick book – Chapter 4: Other ImageMagick Tools
It's been a while since I wrote one of these chapter summaries here, and the reason for that is that I've been busy writing chapters, attending conferences, caring for a sick wife, and stuff like that. The book is still pretty much on track (I'm currently running about a week behind on the chapter deadlines, but I think I can have the whole thing done by the overall deadline). Chapter 4 is an interesting one as it discusses all the tools which aren't going to be covered elsewhere in the book. The reality of ImageMagick is that 95% of the functionality is exposed in the convert command, so you can discuss most things there. There are however some cool things which happen in commands of their own, and those are the things discussed in this chapter. The chapter is so early on in the book because I don't want to give the impression that ImageMagick is a one trick pony, and because any book claiming to be a complete coverage of ImageMagick really does have to discuss them. I wont go into a blow by blow account of what commands are covered, as that would be quite dull to read.…
A 50km week
I went about 50km this last week... I can only say about because my bike computer just reset itself while I was down at the shops -- losing the odometer along the way (it said about 190km). Oh well. All of that riding was errands and travel to and from uni, with only one 13km pleasure ride. [icbm: home]
Well, that’s Google blog search live then
So, Google just launched their blog search tool. [icbm: dcs]
Comparison shopping for books
This was on Boing Boing a while ago, but I only just caught up with the post... SMS and ISBN to an Australian phone number, and get back a bunch of comparative prices. I just gave it a go, and it just works. Now, that's cool. [icbm: work]