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ByGarf created2000-09-03 20:002025-02-06 17:22 updated2025-02-06 17:22 Digital pictures, General, Journal, Nature, Photography, Travelogue

Spent the day at Kew Gardens in London with some friends.

General | Journal | Politics

Tories trounced
ByGarf 2024-07-052025-02-06

Tories have just been well and truly trounced in the UK. Labour has officially won the 2024 UK General Election. Results still coming in but it’s set to be an absolute landslide… https://www.theguardian.Com/politics/live/2024/jul/04/general-election-2024-uk-live-labour-tories-starmer-sunak-results-exit-poll Not so much that Labour won, than the Tories lost. Granted, this time it was more about people voting out the Tories,…

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Christmas Cards | Garf Technology | Journal | Linux

Merry Christmas 2011
ByGarf 2011-12-112024-12-06

Christmas card 2011. “Ebenezer Goose discusses his Christmas dinner.” More goosy nonsense courtesy of Mr.Goose’s infamous Webfooted Weblog:- https://garfnet.org.uk/mrgoose Take a trip down memory lane and browse all our earlier Christmas cards in our special on-line Christmas Card Anthology:- https://garfnet.org.uk/cms/category/christmas-cards/ Image was created/edited using GIMP, a free, open source graphics package bundled with many Linux…

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Digital pictures | Hungary | Journal | Photography | Road Trip | Travelogue

Road trip to Hungary, part 13
ByGarf 2004-08-132025-02-06

Pécs Driving around the beautiful city of Pécs and some snaps from the observation platform on the Pécs TV Torony. At 197 metres tall, the Pécs TV Tower is the tallest building in Hungary and the views from it are quite stunning. Other days Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part…

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FAQ | Journal | Linux | Technology

Hostile server blocking – eliminate ads and other nasties, free
ByGarf 2024-04-152025-08-18

If like me, you are tired of having your screen cluttered full of stupid ads, c/w the general enshittification of the Internet by commercial interests, then you may wish to try /etc/hosts file “hostile server blocking”. It’s free and no additional software is needed. This is because your /etc/hosts file part of your computer’s TCP/IP…

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Journal | Nature | Video

Moggy takes a dip
ByGarf 2022-05-272025-02-06

It was a lazy Bank Holiday Monday morning and we had just crawled out of bed, when we heard a bit of a splash outside. We opened the curtains and noticed the water in the pond was moving, But we didn’t know why. Fortunately Zoneminder captured the incident from one of our security cameras. So…

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Digital pictures | Journal | Photography | Road Trip | Travelogue

Day trip to Basel
ByGarf 2001-08-092025-02-06

Thought we’d cross the border today and visit Basel, in Switzerland. Left the MGF at the gite and took the train instead. I was accompanied by former New Millennium features editor Sarah Keen and her very knowledgeable aunt Jeanne. Camera: Canon Digital Ixus.

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