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Road trip to Hungary, part 15
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My new old Tamron 90mm macro lens
ByGarfA few snaps of my new, old Tamron 90mm macro lens c/w matching 2x teleconverter. For top notch macro work, I’ve yet to find anything – certainly not anything affordable, to beat this old thing. With the matching teleconverter, it does genuine 1:1. On a Micro-Tour-Thirds camera, it means the entire width of an unedited…
Zim desktop wiki
ByGarfI suffer dreadful mental blocks at times. I’m also a tad forgetful. To work around this, I use Jaap Karssenberg’s ‘Zim’. This is an excellent indexed, searchable, cross-linkable, exportable, cross-platform note-taking program. Described by its developer as a ‘desktop wiki’ Zim turns effective note-taking from a tedious chore into a simple and routine task. And…
Whole house Wi-Fi using a single access point
ByGarfDue to its construction, ours is quite a difficult house for “whole house Wi-Fi” due to its solid internal dividing walls, downstairs and upstairs. In fact, my first DIY job when we moved in here, back in 2012, was to run Cat 5e Ethernet cables to every room that we were likely to use a…
Road trip to Hungary, part 14
ByGarfBratislava > Prague Not been to Prague for over decade. It was good to see the old place again. Sadly by the time we arrived it was too late to get any photos. But we managed a few snaps on the way there. Other days Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5…
Osaka Japan
ByGarfDecided to take a break from Hong Kong and spend a few days in and around Osaka, Japan. It rained quite hard today, so we took a riverboat trip. Also found some LED geese.
