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Escape to Hong Kong – Kowloon backstreets

ByGarf created2004-01-08 23:292025-02-06 17:22 updated2025-02-06 17:22 Digital pictures, Hong Kong, Journal, Photography, Travelogue

Spent the day wandering the backstreets of Kowloon.

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Clevo N150CU running GNU/Linux
ByGarf 2020-09-052025-02-06

Seems it’s time to buy another laptop. My trusty old Thinkpad has seen better days. Worse, a company with somewhat ironic name of “PCSpecialist” made a total pig’s breakfast of repairing my new Clevo N141ZU I had purchased from it earlier. “PCSpecialist” also lost my hard disk, then denied having it. And what “PCSpecialist” laughingly…

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Birmingham 1996 – a 35mm film retrospective
ByGarf 1996-09-302025-02-06

I found myself stuck in heavy traffic the M6 on the Gravelly Hill Interchange – AKA Spaghetti Junction. Radio said I could be stuck up there for hours. So I exited the M6 motorway at junction 6 and turned onto the A38(M), what they laughingly call the “Aston Expressway”. That was bumper-to-bumper too. So I…

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UK taxpayers can submit tax returns online using GNUCash open source software
ByGarf 2009-01-232024-12-06

I just completed my UK tax return on-line today. At the end of it all, HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs) ask for some feedback. I thought that fans of open source software might be interested in my response:- “This is certainly a great improvement over previous years. It actually saved me a lot of…

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Merry Christmas 1989
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Chief engineer’s Christmas wishlist. Original by my maternal grandfather, AR Bunday.

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Caterham 7 race day at Castle Coombe
ByGarf 2001-08-272025-02-06

I was invited by Taran Microsystems to attend and photograph one of its Caterham 7 race days at Castle Coombe in Wiltshire.

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Another road trip to Lepe in the MGF
ByGarf 2000-08-192025-02-06

Another road trip to Lepe Beach in the MGF roadster.

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