Chapel of the Chicken
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! – Luke 13:34 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ildarabbit/3145493965/
Panoramas from my Israel Trip
Yes, it was two years ago. Yes, that makes me a ginormous slacker. But after seeing the photos my friends took on their recent excursion to the Holy Land, I wanted to stitch together the panoramic photos I took. Some of them stitched up really well! Clicking the link will take you to a massive [...]
Israel Pictures Available
Well, our pictures have been available for quite a while, but I’ve been lazy and haven’t posted a link anywhere public. No longer: Here they are, all >6000 of them. Israel was a fantastic experience. If you’re interested in learning more about peace and justice for Palestinians, please visit these sites: ICADH – The Israeli [...]
Fix missing thumbnails in Nautilus
As I begin assembling the picture package for my J-term trip to Israel and Palestine, I’ve run into a problem: with high-end digital cameras, the JPEG-compressed image files are larger than 5 MB, and Nautilus (the default Ubuntu file manager) won’t create thumbnails for pictures that size. The solution: a bit of configuration in gconf-editor. [...]
Two simple ways to recover photos from a broken SD card
I just got back from a 18 day trip to Israel and Palestine, and my classmate Dave’s SD card for his digital camera gave out right at the end of the trip. He gave me the card to try to recover the pictures, and I was pretty successful. Here’s what I did. I needed to [...]