OneAndOneIs2

It's my blog's birthday. I picked a memorable date..

I'm back from America, weighted down with a laptop, peppermint patties, and far too much washing. I'm working my way through the chores slowly but surely. I bought some new bedding while I was out there so that's currently in the washing machine. Which is beeping to tell me it's finished. I'll get to it.

New laptop has a couple of things to fix - like the US plug and the Vista OS. Apparently they don't ship install disks with laptops any more, they put the ISO on the machine and you burn your own copy. Tight gits. Once I have a power supply and a DVD-R disc, I'll burn the install disc and then get some flavour of Linux - probably Ubuntu - installed on it. I'll go with dual-booting, at least for a while. Looking forward to seeing how the dual-core and open-source Intel graphics perform..

I've just been informed my hard drive is full.. too many photos, I think. Enter ImageMagick and mogrify -resize 33% *.jpg - digital camera photos are all bigger than my monitor, so there's no point in keeping them in their large and multi-MB size when they can be shrunk to save masses of space.. Freed up a gig and a half.

I should really write a proper post on the whole "living in America" thing.. but I'm not in the mood. Later!

Happy New Year!