One of the brilliant ideas we had before coming to Ireland was to buy a supercheap laptop and throw Linux on to it so that we’d have a mini “photo studio” to process our pictures with as we took them with our digital cameras. After some fussing with the fact that Krita, the standard imaging tool in KDE, is glacially slow on this computer, I finally remembered that Linux distros normally ship with a suite of programs called “Image Magick” which can let you process images from the command line. So with a shell script I could resize all of the images in a directory at once, making it not only much faster than resizing a few dozen images in Krita, but faster than doing the same in any Windows based program as well.

Cool, huh?

Anyway. We’ve thrown up over 100 pictures that we (mostly Jennifer) have taken. They are located at:

Crawford Ireland Trip 2006

Note: I think that this is my favorite picture from Trim.