A model of efficiency (and empathy for the e-mail subscribers), I will combine several updates in to one post.

First, congratulations and wishes of luck and prosperity are in order for all of the people for graduated today!

I took a few pictures of the newly minted graduates.  You can find more over at Adam Derewecki’s blog.

Speaking of Derewecki, he and Zach Fredin are headed cross-country to San Jose and they will be attempting to update the blog as they travel.  Stay tuned.

Also, Derewecki posed a good question this afternoon as we were processing the pictures he took, leading to today’s Linux tip: If you have a bunch of pictures that need to be rotated automatically based on EXIF data, make sure you have the exiftran utility installed (Ubuntu and Debian users can install it with apt-get install exiftran), open a up a terminal, browse to the directory where the pictures are and type:

ls *.jpg | xargs exiftran -aipg

The a,i,p, and g tell exiftran to rotate automatically based on EXIF data (if you camera has an orientation sensor), change the files in place (don’t make new, rotate versions of the originals), preserve timestamps and other info (like ISO data), and generate (or regenerate) the EXIF-embedded thumbnail.

One new site I started following is http://www.security-hacks.com/.  They have an interesting set of articles and links and things are generally easy to follow for the intermediate-level hacker.

I also saw this article posted on my favorite news site.  Pretty interesting if you’re in to that sort of thing (game theory and economics).

That’s all for now.

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