Merry Christmas 1990
Garf Technology rests on Christmas Day.
Actually, it hardly ever does but it was a nice thought anyway.
Actually, it hardly ever does but it was a nice thought anyway.
I needed to get away from things for a while. Fortunately an old pal had a spare room in his basement, in his house on one of the outer Hong Kong islands. Today we went to Mui Wo Beach, about 1 km from his house.
I’ve had cheapo cards that I dropped, kicked, trod on, used a squillion times, paid the proverbial tuppence ha’penny for and they are still going. Others, even the expensive ones have failed or become flaky within a few months – or worse, clapped out just outside the warranty. Similarly hard disks can fail in the…
I suffer dreadful mental blocks at times. I’m also a tad forgetful. To work around this, I use Jaap Karssenberg’s ‘Zim’. This is an excellent indexed, searchable, cross-linkable, exportable, cross-platform note-taking program. Described by its developer as a ‘desktop wiki’ Zim turns effective note-taking from a tedious chore into a simple and routine task. And…
Went to London with my girlfriend to visit the Vivienne Westwood Exhibition. Then we went up the London Eye ferris wheel to take a few snaps. There is rather a good view of the city form up there.
“The world doesn’t need lots of different operating systems” seems to be the prevailing wisdom of the moment. But I would question that. Why? Do we also need only one type of car, or one type of television? OK there are those who say the world would be a better place without either. But would…
The final leg, Belgium and then Calais on the north coast of France The trip that was planned to be about 1700 km each way in fact was over 5500 km, mostly due to our various detours. Other days Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8…