Shiny!

pointed out by ps238principal - flexible screens are here (or will be in a year or two)

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/09/samsung-shows-flexible-and-transparent-displays-at-ces-2011-vid/#

This may go a long way towards making the sort of pocket PC I'd like a possibility. If the screen can be stored curved, or possibly even roll out, a lot of interesting new designs become possible. Possibly it's already too late, with touchscreen pads so popular, but I can hope.

Final charity update - Doctors Without Borders - and blood...

I've now sorted out my accounts on the Flatland RPG; after taking off the percentage that goes to e23 and Drivethru RPG I've ended up with just over £50, which I've rounded up to £55. There will be gift aid on that, which ought to take the final total to £68.75.

Ignoring gift aid, this takes the total amount raised for Doctors Without Borders from this project to date to £215; this is less than I'd hoped, but not as bad as I'd feared.

In other news, I donated blood for the 95th time tonight - confirmed again that I can't be considered for bone marrow donations since I'm CMV positive, which means that my cells can't be given to anyone with their immune system suppressed, but I'm still apparently OK for everyone else, and my blood can be processed for specialist procedures such as platelet donations etc. Aiming to pass 100 donations before I retire, ought to be possible if I don't have any prolonged illnesses etc.

Converting graphics?

I've been trying to work out the best way to handle the Army and Navy Stores files without losing resolution or messing up the images. I suddenly realised that out of habit I've saved them all with 256 grey scales, but there is no apparent loss of quality at 16 grey scales and files are less than half the size.

Given the number of files I really don't want to load them, reduce the number of colours, and save them again manually. Can anyone recommend a program (preferably for Windows) that'll do this for all the gif files in a directory?

Now sorted, thanks to nojay who recced Irfanview Files have been converted and uploaded already, really can't see any difference except speed is better and less space is used.