Alas, Murphy was hiding in my camera this weekend. The ride and dinner were great, but I lost most of the pictures. Those who want to hear the entire sad story should read on, everyone else can click here to skip to the few remaining images.
Just as a program is a list of computer instructions to perform a task, a script is a list of programs to be run to perform a higher level task. Example: I have a program that talks to my digital camera. This program lets me do things like find out how many images are in the camera, download the images as a thumbnail, set the date, etc. I've created a script to do these things:
The script told the camera program to use the date the picture
was taken when storing the name on the disk. The name is
in the form x-yyyy-mmm-dd-n.jpg where:
- x
- is either a
tfor thumbnail orpfor picture.- yyyy
- is the year the picture was taken, e.g. 1998
- mmm
- is the month the picture was taken, e.g. Aug
- dd
- is the day the picture was taken, e.g. 29
- n
- is a number, e.g. the
nth picture taken that day
See the problem?
Computers are literal minded beasts and I told it that the picture number was only 1 digit long. Therefore, it didn't know what to do with the 10th and subsequent images taken the same day. I looks like it wrote 10 on top of 9, then 11 on top of 9, then 12 on top of 9, and so on.
See the second problem?
The last step of my script was erase the images. It did this step automagically. Without verifying that the images were downloaded correctly. Just like I told it to.
Sigh... And I'm supposed to know what I'm doing.
Anyway, here are all of the surviving images. I normally would not include the really bad ones but if I throw them out I'll have next to nothing to show.
Click on any image to see full size picture. Use the back button of your browser to return to this page. Most of the pictures are about 40 K bytes and should not take too long to load.
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