Phasor Burn

Fred does it again. A must read. His entire blog is a must read, imho.

Take him with a large grain of salt, if necessary, but yes he has something today on most everything, and while you may not agree with all of his views, they are thought provoking in the best of ways.

edit: I must point out that neither Fred nor I are of the jew-consipracy believers. Rather, Fred debunks it quite nicely in the aforementioned article.

Woot! New Bruce Campbell goodness coming soon to a screen of some kind near you.

Spotted on http://www.bruce-campbell.com/

USA Network has a fancy new spy-turned-one-man-A-team premiering this month called Burn Notice, starring that dude from Touching Evil, that chick from Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead, and that guy from Sundown: A Vampire in Retreat.

Bruce plays Sam Axe, a Jimmy-Buffet-shirt-wearing former special ops warrior who has devoted his post-conflct years to drinking as many and having as much sex on the beach as possible.

Burn Notice starts June 28th at 10PM on USA and is so far scheduled for 13 episodes. We’re all very excited and trust that both of the people who routinely visit Bruce Campbell Online will watch, TiVo, iTune, or Joost every episode (people who own Zunes are not allowed to watch).

Yeah, you got that right. You Zune Losers. Go buy an iPod you freaks.

For some strange reason I had the date in my camera wrong by a year (2006 vs 2007). I guess this could happen if someone were in the menus and didn’t press the exit but rather hit an arrow/navigation button at the wrong point instead.

Anways, I ended up with about 500 photos that had the wrong date in their EXIF headers. No worries, exiftool to the rescue

1. copy all affected photos to a working dir (fixdate in this example)

2. download exiftool

3. check the dates with that, just to be sure it is reading the files correctly
# exiftool -p ‘$filename has date $dateTimeOriginal’ -q -f fixdate

4. Move the capture/modify etc dates forward 1 year
# exiftool -P “-AllDates+=1:0:0 0:0:0″ fixdate

Don’t worry. This will create new files with the same unix timestamp and fixed exif dates, and will rename the starting files to have an “_original” extension. Plus you did COPY and not MOVE in step 1, right? Always be paranoid with your data.

5. verify and copy/move them back to their original locations
# exiftool -p ‘$filename has date $dateTimeOriginal’ -q -f fixdate

A final note: Observe in step 4 that the syntax for specifying the directory is different than steps 3/5. Wonderful user interface consistency eh? Whatever, all I care at this point are that my photos dates are now fixed.

… due to lack of workers.

Any photojournalism students reading this (or teachers thereof) ?

You are so hosed. Sucks to be you.

http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2007/07/unvarnished-reality.html