You are here: Home / Journal / Escape to Hong Kong – Kowloon

Escape to Hong Kong – Kowloon

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

Kowloon

Digital pictures | Equipment | General | Journal | Photography

Lens repair – Tamron 14mm-150mm
ByGarf 2022-07-032026-01-20

I’m ashamed to admit that I managed to drop my camera c/w my favourite 14mm-150mm Tamron super-zoom lens yesterday. I failed to secure the camera correctly to the tripod and it fell crashing to the ground, lens-first. Fortunately the camera, a tiny µ4/3 Lumix DMC-GX7, seemed unharmed. Even more fortunate, I generally I use those…

Read More Lens repair – Tamron 14mm-150mm
Debian | Digital pictures | Equipment | General | Infrared pictures | Journal | Linux | Photography | Technology

More infrared photography
ByGarf 2025-12-262026-01-20

Well today is Boxing day, and the sun just managed to struggle its way out of the clouds around 14:00. As luck would have it, my variable infrared filter actually arrived from Shenzen late Christmas eve. So, following on from my early IR adventures on Christmas Eve, I thought I’d pop out to our backyard…

Read More More infrared photography
Journal | Linux | Technology | Windows

Using VirtualBox to run Windows apps that will not run on WINE
ByGarf 2009-01-242024-12-06

I’m a big fan of WINE and an even bigger fan of CrossoverLinux. This is the commercial implementation of WINE by CodeWeavers. For many Windows apps it works very well indeed. In many ways I prefer it to using a virtual machine (VM) because firstly one does not have to start a VM just to…

Read More Using VirtualBox to run Windows apps that will not run on WINE
General | Journal

A very near miss
ByGarf 2023-01-272025-02-06

Seems during the wee small hours of this morning, our little blue planet had a very near miss, as we narrowly avoided a collision with a speeding asteroid. At 2023-01-27 00:29 UTC, an asteroid codenamed “2023 BU” came within about 3,589 kilometres of the planet’s surface, around the southerly tip of South America. To put…

Read More A very near miss
Digital pictures | Hungary | Journal | Photography | Travelogue

Batthyány Kastélyszálló in the snow
ByGarf 2005-12-302025-02-06

Girlfriend and I stayed overnight at the Batthyány Kastélyszálló, a few kilometres from Pécs. Interesting place – it was lovely outside, but a bit rough inside, with plaster literally peeling off the walls. Still, it was good fun.

Read More Batthyány Kastélyszálló in the snow
Christmas Cards | Garf Technology | Journal | Retrospective

Merry Christmas 1991
ByGarf 1991-12-252025-02-06

“Mind if I have a go on your new computer?” by Catherine Linaker.

Read More Merry Christmas 1991

Leave a Reply Cancel reply