Buzzing around France in a little red MGF
Spent a very enjoyable day buzzing around France in the MGF. It seemed to like French roads, and actually managed to do a whole day without breaking down.
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Corfe Castle
A road trip to Corfe Castle and Sandbanks, Dorset, in an MGF roadster. Includes a few snaps of the Sandbanks chain ferry.
Struggling to make Ubuntu look good with Blubuntu
Editor’s note: This article is old and outdated. Blubuntu was eventually fixed in 2010. KDE4 also went on to be really rather good too. That was until they messed it up again with KDE5, but that is showing signs of being rather good now (2018-12-27) too. Seems that Canonical has woken up to the fact…
Angel Close-ups
Bought my girlfriend this little angel fairly thing. Thought I better grab a few snaps before I gave it to her.
“This Is Hans in Ungarn, from Pécs, Hungary…”
“…playing his favourite music, I hope you like it.”
These are the first words you will hear when you connect to the internet radio stream of Radio Pécs International. And I recently had the pleasure of meeting the man behind the show, Hans Randau. His station is located in a small basement room in his lovely home, which overlooks Pécs, a Mediterranean style town about 200km south of the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
Home-made detachable camera straps
Today I decided to make my own affordable detachable camera and equipment lanyard straps. I used some cheap generic “Peak Design compatible” buckles, bought direct from China via Ali Express, together with some generic anchors from the same source. I also used some 25mm nylon webbing I’ve had kicking round for ages. Granted, perhaps bright…
Mui Wo brushfire
Today we had a fairly big brushfire up in the Mui-Wo Hills. A helicopter carrying a large bucket of water was dispatched to put out the fire, along with several fire engines. The helicopter, tail number B-HRN is a Eurocopter AS-332L2 Super Puma Mk2, owned by the Hong Hong government. More about this aircraft https://airport-data.com/aircraft/B-HRN
