Sweet noted
that you can resize photos in iPhoto by exporting them. I think I
remember that feature not that he mentioned it. Anyway, so I tried to
do that with a bunch of photos and now I remember why I didn't like
that feature. The big thing is that you can specify height or width but
not both, the other being automatically calculated based on the first
image. This makes it hard to resize multiple images of different sizes,
especially if you want a uniform width like I do.
Even exporting one photo at a time didn't work perfectly, though it was
pretty close (I swear, 640 pixels does not mean 639 pixels!). The other
problem is that the JPEGs were huge, three times bigger than what I use
(and I use a relatively low compression). iPhoto is also slow, somehow
managed to grab 950+ MB of RAM while importing photos, and the crop
tool looks cool but is hard to use because it opaques everything
outside the crop marks. I like using Apple products but that's all a
bit too much to deal with.
He also showed me how to assign command-key shortcuts in BBEdit.
Apparently it's a built-in feature. I was annoyed that there is no Save
As... shortcut but in truth it's not as necessary since I don't use
BBEdit to edit html files. I'm trying to use Mozilla since it's free
and relatively good. It's not perfect: it's slow and it has a habit of
accumulating html cruft which is bad if you constantly create web pages
by modifying existing pages. It doesn't create bad html, just tends to
leave around a lot of empty tags (like <code></code> or
<a href...></a> which don't affect any text). I find that
using Paste Without Formatting helps a lot to lessen the cruft buildup.
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It's Carolina
vs New England in the Super Bowl. I'm not especially particular on who
wins, though I'd rather it be Carolina since New England won it a
couple of years ago. I think Carolina has a good shot at it, though New
England is definitely the better team going into the game. Once again
it's a two week break before the game, sort of a boring time for
football fans.
Meanwhile the Sacramento Kings are doing well, at the top of the NBA
with a 29-9 record as I write this. True, it's not even half way
through the season and other than Webber missing the season so far,
there haven't been any major injuries. I'll always say that although
they may be really good without Webber, they can't win a championship
without him. At least for the next couple of years. Stojakovic and Brad
Miller are awefully good and Mike Bibby is back to being a solid point
guard.
In a few minutes I gotta go to the cancelled Ryland Glen Homeowners
Association meeting. Someone should show up since we didn't have enough
time to tell people that the meeting was cancelled. Running an
association is actually quite a bit of reading. Luckily not that much
work since our management company takes care of most of it. Sure we pay
them like $8000 a year but it's well worth it for a new association
with no experience.
Tomorrow I need to get my car smog checked. I'm worried it will fail to
pass since I've had the "Check Exhaust System" light on for the last
year or more. So obviously I need to make sure it didn't pass so I can
get whatever it is fixed so that I can renew my registration before the
old one expires. I'm such a procrastinator.
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