Old college friend and musician Duncan Avery came down to stay with me in Southampton for the weekend. While he was here, he asked me to take a few snaps in the attic studio. I gladly obliged.
I just sent a spare µ4/3 camera body off to Protech Photographic in Crowborough to have it converted to “full spectrum” for Infrared work. Meantime, I thought it might be fun to go back over some of my earlier IR stuff, captured off somewhat lesser cameras. My earliest adventures into IR date way back to…
Drunken bumblebees working the lavender in our garden. Seems Bumblebees have longer tongues than ordinary worker bees and can reach to the bottom of the lavender flowers in order to get to the nectar. Moreover nectar can ferment, when mixed with rainfall and natural yeast. Consequently these incredible little creatures can become quite tipsy, especially…
With all the misery in the world, I think this project is actually quite heart-warming. The XO laptop (AKA the $100.00 laptop), is the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte from MIT and former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan. It is designed for children in the majority world. The first machines started rolling off the Changshu…
The Shabby Trabi. Garf Technology Christmas card 2008.
2013 was quite an interesting year for me, not least because we finally moved way from my tiny terraced cottage overlooking Southampton common, to a much larger place, where there is enough room for a reasonably usable home studio. Only moved 35km, but it felt like moving to another planet. Of course, it takes a…
Note this applies to Ubuntu 7.xx and may be out of date. For Ubuntu 8.xx please visit:- http://www.garfnet.org.uk/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=136&Itemid=58 These are my favourite (K)ubuntu applications. The name “Goosebuntu” is not entirely serious – it is just a name we coined in the office. However the following apps will turn a standard Kubuntu installation into something really…
