… day off today!
And that’s not like me is it? On a Friday!
But I have,’t really had a day off. I’ve just been doing something different.
A couple of things, actually.
Firstly, since I moved on from Paint Shop Pro for my image resizing, I’ve been having issues with my thumbnails. Even at 93×140 , about 1/40th the size of the full-size images, they have been finishing up at about 60kb – about half the size of the full-size images.
I’ve tried everything that I can but I couldn’t resize them pro-rata and in the end I gave up. But messing around on PSP doing something quite different, I suddenly hit on how to do it – and once I’d worked it out I was off.
There were over 5000 images to edit but I could do it in batches, but that was still 24 batches – one for each month – and it took forever. Mind you it was worth it, the space I’ve saved on my hard drive and on my web hosting.
Second reason was that I’ve had another idea about refining my water collection. Is this the 6th or the 7th idea that I’ve had?
What has prompted this is the fact that the herb pots at the front of the verandah are waterlogged – seems like the water is overflowing the guttering again.
The trap isn’t collecting the dirt like it’s supposed to, due to where I’ve had to site it. Consequently the dirt is flowing down the tube and blocking the filter.
I’ve had an idea about fitting larger, full-size guttering, having a T-downspout with the drop arm as the sump, and the cross piece as the water pipe. Connecting up the 80mm pipe to that and feeding straight into the settling chamber.
Sounds rather complicated, but I’ll buy the bits tomorrow and you can see what I mean when I assemble it.
