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Brilliant Lessig at TED

simone — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:59:36 +0000

Watch this (as usual) brilliant talk by Lawrence Lessig at TED:

I always wonder how these brilliant thoughts affect the mind and behaviors of couch potatoes worldwide. Couch potatoes that vote. That buy. That influence the world in which everyone else lives.

Fifty people, one question… in Italy!

simone — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:36:45 +0000

Don’t you love, love, love this?
I did the interviews, and my friend Luca did the footage and the post-processing. Good job Luca!

Tribute to fiftypeopleonequestion in Rome from Luca Sartoni on Vimeo.

Good

simone — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:48:03 +0000

I’m good. Feeling good, doing good.
In the last few months, I didn’t really blog that much, right?
Hope I’ll find some time to do that in the future.

Cheers :)

Moscow

simone — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:44:26 +0000

In Moscow right now… It’s beautiful!
I need to fix a small problem with my wordpress… Be patient :)

Where is Matt?

simone — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:54:37 +0000

Where the hell is Matt?

Story of Stuff

simone — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:19:39 +0000

Very interesting: Story of Stuff.

Bulk resize images with GIMP

simone — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:58:56 +0000

I shot a couple of dozen pictures in Seattle yesterday, and I wanted to put them on Flickr. Problem is that Flickr has a monthly upload bandwidth limit, and my Canon EOS 400D creates 3382×2259 images, but for Flickr a 1200×800 should suffice; therefore I decided to resize them before uploading.
How to do that with a batch process, rather than by hand?

I came up with a nice solution using GIMP (for Linux Ubuntu, but it’s valid for other Linux flavors as well).
Here’s how.

Install the package gimp-plugin-registry, which includes also David’s Batch Processor (name says all).

Now open Gimp, go to Xtns, and then click “Batch Process…“.

Here you can configure the details, expecially:
- which images you want to convert (”input” tab)
- how you want to resize them (”resize” tab)
- the type and quality of output images (in the “output” tab)
- renaming (you can’t overwrite the original files; choose a different directory for output).

It works!

Check them out on my flickr page (pictures have a friendly CreativeCommons license, you can use them).