… day off today!<\/p>\n
And that’s not like me is it? On a Friday!<\/p>\n
But I have,’t really had a day off. I’ve just been doing something different.<\/p>\n
A couple of things, actually.<\/p>\n
Firstly, since I moved on from Paint Shop Pro for my image resizing, I\u2019ve been having issues with my thumbnails. Even at 93\u00d7140 , about 1\/40th the size of the full-size images, they have been finishing up at about 60kb \u2013 about half the size of the full-size images. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve tried everything that I can but I couldn\u2019t 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 \u2013 and once I\u2019d worked it out I was off. <\/p>\n
There were over 5000 images to edit but I could do it in batches, but that was still 24 batches \u2013 one for each month \u2013 and it took forever. Mind you it was worth it, the space I\u2019ve saved on my hard drive and on my web hosting.<\/p>\n
Second reason was that I\u2019ve had another idea about refining my water collection. Is this the 6th or the 7th idea that I\u2019ve had? <\/p>\n
What has prompted this is the fact that the herb pots at the front of the verandah are waterlogged \u2013 seems like the water is overflowing the guttering again.<\/p>\n
The trap isn\u2019t collecting the dirt like it\u2019s supposed to, due to where I\u2019ve had to site it. Consequently the dirt is flowing down the tube and blocking the filter. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Sounds rather complicated, but I’ll buy the bits tomorrow and you can see what I mean when I assemble it.<\/p>\n
