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Do you have a photobucket account?  Have you ever, for whatever reason, wanted to download a whole album or a page worth of photos and found it time consuming?

If so, here is a script that will allow you to bulk download:  getpics.sh
As you can see, it isn’t the best quality script ever, but it does the job.

A word of warning, it connects to the internet once to see what page youve specified, plu as many time as you have photos.

To view a whole album (and this download a whole album) add “?start=all” (no quotes) to the end of your URL.

Requirements:
Bash
curl
Internet connection
A photobucket page that shows the “Direct Link” text box

At work I’ve got a situation where I want to store a load of files in a central location, and then scatter links accross the rest of the file system (for reasons best not explained here).  The file system will be picked up and moved at some point, and indeed everybody accesses this file system through different addresses, so a relative link is exactly what I wanted. 
Under UNIX, I’d do something like this: Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, it would appear I’m becoming a little more Web 2.0 compliant…I now use RSS and Google Reader.  For years I couldn’t understand why you would want RSS, I had bookmarks and could click on them and look at the site myself, but there’s something about having everything in one place which is very nice. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve finally managed to get my blog to update twitter for me

Now you can follow me on twitter, clicky

How cool is that!?

After a long and hectic weekend, Monday arrived.  This Monday is special, because it is my last day working at Sun Microsystems

I woke up early and left the house at 7:30, walked to Tesco and bought some Krispy Kreme donuts   I waited for the bus, hopping on at Blackwater station, I met Ali at Camberley as he jumped on the bus.

I had packed my badge away over the weekend by accident, so I had to go to reception and pick up a general badge.  The detour didn’t bother me too much, it meant I could go to goods-in and give them a box of chocolates, thanking them for handling personal mail over the course of the year. Read the rest of this entry »