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Image optimization

8:27am JST Tuesday 13 September 2005

I am still awake. I have been on Jesse's really fast internet connection uploading all my pictures to my webserver, optimizing them on that server with ImageMagick (a utility I don't have on my computer), then downloading them all back to my computer, and deleting them off my webserver (because it doesn't have enough room to hold all the pictures, even when they are optimized).

During most of this process, I have been uploading, optimizing, downloading and deleting at the same time (to save time) in a total of six different terminal windows (those four functions, plus a terminal on my computer and on my server to monitor the progress on both ends). All unix, all command line.

I really love unix and emacs. I set up a macro in emacs that optimizes a set of three directories at a time (each day contains images, then two separate subdirectories for Original images (to roll back changes) and Thumbnails). However, I don't know how to put a conditional in the macro, so it breaks if there aren't images in all those directories.

bank stuff

9:09pm JST Tuesday 13 September 2005

I didn't sleep but about 1 hour today, from around noon. Around 4pm I went to the bank to pay for the tickets to Tel Aviv. That went smoothly (though the directions are all in Japanese on the ATM, so I had to call for help), and then I asked them if they could help me keep Yahoo BB! from charging me 4700 yen per month. It's really shit to lose that much money per month just cause I haven't been able to tell them to stoppit. I even got help from Shoko, but she was unable to help.

But, as of today, there is 0 balance in the account. Just let them try to get money from it now.

ooooh are they going to cancel? Oh no! I only haven't used the service in 17 months.