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Lisbon, Portugal, day 11 Cascais

ByGarf created2005-09-06 23:592025-02-06 17:14 updated2025-02-06 17:14 Digital pictures, Journal, Photography, Travelogue

Today we wandered down to Cascais.

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Walking back to Pécs through the snow
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Walking back to Pécs through the snow. Today, even the rougher prts of town have a strange beauty, now they’re covered with snow.

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A cyber café for thirty quid? Farcical or feasible?
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“10 pc Cybercafé for 30ukp!!!!” was the triumphant claim of a recent post on the Puppy Linux users forum… http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=326686869&t=12714 Thirty pounds sterling is about fifty US dollars – not a lot of money. Needless to say my colleagues and I were intrigued and perhaps even a tad sceptical. More intriguing was the claim that…

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United States invades Venezuela
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Seems this time it’s Venezuela’s turn to have its infrastructure destroyed and its citizens blown to pieces. Trump claims it’s to stem a drug problem and that President Nicholas Maduro wasn’t fairly elected. Much of the world thinks United States’ Invasion of Venezuela is mostly to satisfy the United States’ insatiable appetite for other people’s…

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Flora the flowerpot cat
ByGarf 1999-09-112025-02-06

Flora the Flowerpot Cat. Next door’s cat decided she liked kipping in a disused 25cm flowerpot on the dividing wall. She was a particularly friendly creature and loved having her photo taken.

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Icom IC-R20 radio scanner
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Being a geeky type of chap, I generally find that the best way to guarantee that Santa puts a decent geek-friendly Christmas present in my stocking is to buy it myself! So this year I treated myself to an Icom IC-R20 hand-held, all-band communications receiver/scanner. I have always had a penchant for small communications receivers….

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Is AliExpress any good?
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Is AliExpress any good is a difficult question to answer in a single word. It is ‘a pig and a poke‘ to some extent. Having spent quite a lot of time in Hong Kong, AliExpress has many of the attributes of a Hong Kong street market. I.e. quite a lot of junk, some quite good…

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