Wandered into Kowloon today, camera at the ready. I’ve always been particularly fascinated by Canton Road, where there are tiny shops packed to the ceilings with engineering bits, bearings springs etc. And other emporia with distinctly amusing names.
I always had rather a soft spot for geese. There used to be a small gaggle of them on the Cemetery Lake, on the Common, opposite my old place in Southampton. Back in the days of film, they were always excellent models to shoot off the last few frames of a film. And they seemed…
New MGF in the New Forest, Beaulieu and Redbridge Causeway. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus.
Second day of our trip, first day actually wandering around the beautiful sunny city of Lisbon, in Portugal.
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format for images has served us well for nearly three decades. But is is essentially a 1990’s format. Today we have better ways of compressing images. The most popular currently is Google’s WEBP (Web Picture) Format. Many modern websites use WebP as its default format for uploaded images that it…
These splendid-looking geese are residents at the Weald and Down Open Air Museum, West Sussex, England.
More astute observers may have noticed that GarfNet has changed a bit lately. You may also have observed that some features are missing and some don’t work at all. We’re really sorry about this. Trouble is that Garfnet is currently upgrading its main CMS (content management system) from Joomla 1.0.x to Joomla 1.5.x. This task…
