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Escape to Hong Kong – a tram ride

ByGarf created2004-01-02 23:592025-02-06 17:22 updated2025-02-06 17:22 Digital pictures, Hong Kong, Journal, Photography, Travelogue

I rode the tram, literally from one end of Hong Kong island to the other, taking a photo every few seconds.

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London Golf Show – arrival the night before
ByGarf 2005-04-212025-02-06

My girlfriend was working for the London Golf Show and asked me if I’d care to join her in for a few days ad take lots of pictures of the show. Naturally I agreed. These are a few snaps as we arrived the night before the show began, at the Excel Centre, London.

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Zim desktop wiki
ByGarf 2026-01-122026-01-13

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…

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Escape to Hong Kong II – my very temporary office
ByGarf 2004-09-182025-02-06

My very temporary office on Hong Kong. Actually the basement of my friend’s house in Mui Wo. But it was a great base form which to see Hong Kong and its environs and it was very good of my friends to put me up.

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Bye Bye Boris, again
ByGarf 2023-06-152025-02-06

Amongst his many sackings for lying, he was sacked by the Times for making up quotes. So yes, the Daily Heil does indeed seem to be the perfect place for Boris to get paid stupid money for making up more asinine far-right crap. A more detailed list of Johnson’s more egregious lies… And as ever,…

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Making a 120-year-old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens work on a modern mirrorless camera
ByGarf 2023-12-292026-01-20

Over Christmas I set myself a little task of trying to make a 120-year- old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens fit on a fairly modern camera. The lens was given to me in the late 1980’s by one of my very first models. It was a nice thought but to be honest, I came…

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Merry Christmas 1990
ByGarf 1990-12-252025-02-06

Garf Technology rests on Christmas Day. Actually, it hardly ever does but it was a nice thought anyway.

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