Hong Kong with a new digital camera, part 5
I found myself in Hong Kong in Christmas 1998 and early January 1999, and decided to treat myself to a new camera. My first half-decent digital, an Olympus C1400L. These are some of its results…
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Icom IC-R20 radio scanner
Being a geeky type of chap, I generally find that the best way to guarantee that Santa puts a decent geek-friendly Christmas present in my stocking is to buy it myself! So this year I treated myself to an Icom IC-R20 hand-held, all-band communications receiver/scanner. I have always had a penchant for small communications receivers….
Escape to Hong Kong – Kowloon
Kowloon
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Perplexity
Whilst I am deeply sceptical about artificial “intelligence”, I’m also having quite a lot of fun with it too. Over the last eighteen months, I’ve gone from generating header images for blog articles, ugly images of unpleasant politicians and surreal greetings cards, to creating entire virtual shoots. Today, it also serves as a serious learning…
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Shortwave radio recordings
“Shortwave radio recordings” is a small collection of recordings of various HF and VHF transmissions. These have been hanging around since I recorded them using my Icom IC-R20 radio scanner back in the mid-late noughties. I’m not sure how much interest these will be to other people. But considering Garfnet’s 30th anniversary is only just…
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Road trip to Shoreham
I arranged to meet up with an on-line photographer friend in Shoreham, in Sussex. I had arrange to collect a pair of fluorescent plat-panel continuous studio lights from him. I decided to make a few stops en route and grab a few snaps. For some strange reason, large, out-of-place structures always seem to interest me….
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Why does Google think I’m at Barnard Castle?
In fact, I am 416 kilometres away from Barnard Castle, as the crow flies, or about 500km by road. Granted, I very seldom use Google as a search engine. I use privacy-aware searches instead such as DuckDuckGo. I have also been to great lengths to prise my rooted smartphone from Google’s clutches too. But my…
