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ByGarf created2004-07-17 23:592025-02-06 17:22 updated2025-02-06 17:22 Digital pictures, Journal, Photography, Road Trip, Travelogue

I had to give a course in Colchester yesterday. I stayed overnight and drove back via Southend-on-Sea in Essex. So I thought I should grab a few snaps while I was there.

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Escape to Hong Kong – a tram ride
ByGarf 2004-01-022025-02-06

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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A fully loaded miniature stainless steel router rack
ByGarf 2022-06-272025-02-06

A few folks have asked me what I use to keep our various networking and internet connectivity kit neat and tidy, yet reasonably service friendly. Well, I have to admit that it was rather a muddle for a many years. That was until I decided to make a simple multistorey stainless steel router rack. Moreover,…

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How does GarfNet manage its image library?
ByGarf 2007-10-072024-07-18

Editor’s note 2018-01-01: Coppermine has been deprecated and we are no longer actively adding to it, nor are we accepting content on it from third-party users. The following text is kept here purely for historical purposes. We’ve been using Coppermine (a free, open source PHP/MYSQL gallery & database system) for several years here on GarfNet….

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Pécsi Sörfőzde – Pécs beer factory
ByGarf 2025-11-292026-01-25

I found myself in my wife’s old hometown of Pécs, a small university city and former Roman settlement about 200 km south of the Hungarian capital Budapest. She kindly organised a visit to the Pécsi Sörfőzde or the “Pécs Beer Factory”. This is the largest brewery in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It also has…

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Merry Christmas 2023
ByGarf 2023-12-242026-01-14

Merry Christmas 2023 from GarfNet, in a cold, damp, wet and windy Old Blighty. Like last year, its all a tad dull and gloomy here and many folks here are not exactly brimming with festive cheer, this year. Nevertheless, merry Christmas anyway… 🙂 About the picture The photo is entitled “The easily LED geese of…

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Why does Google think I’m at Barnard Castle?
ByGarf 2020-05-272025-02-06

In fact, I am 416 kilometres away from Barnard Castle, as the crow flies, or about 500km by road. Granted, I very seldom use Google as a search engine. I use privacy-aware searches instead such as DuckDuckGo. I have also been to great lengths to prise my rooted smartphone from Google’s clutches too. But my…

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