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A very near miss
ByGarfSeems during the wee small hours of this morning, our little blue planet had a very near miss, as we narrowly avoided a collision with a speeding asteroid. At 2023-01-27 00:29 UTC, an asteroid codenamed “2023 BU” came within about 3,589 kilometres of the planet’s surface, around the southerly tip of South America. To put…
Server updates
ByGarfRegular visitors will notice that quite a few Garfnet features are looking a bit tired. And you have probably encountered quite a few 404’s too. The reason for this is that Garfnet is undergoing a fairly major overhaul at the moment. Moving to a new, better designed and much faster server Dumping dead or unsupported…
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ByGarfOne of my pet hates is the soft-touch rubberised coating some manufactures put on their kit. It invariably fails sooner or later. Indeed, I’ve had quite a lot of kit over the years where the rubberised coating has failed. Fortunately it is usually fixable – or to be more precise, removable. Depending on the coating’s…
New Forest skies
ByGarfThere were some magnificence skies as I drove across the new Forest today. So I had to stop and grab a few snaps. (more pictures to follow)
Digital pictures | General | Hong Kong | Journal | Photography | Technology | TravelogueHong Kong Museum
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Digital pictures | General | Journal | Photography | Road Trip | TravelogueLangley Tavern and Lepe Beach
ByGarfWent out to the New Forest to visit my mother, in the little red MX5. While we were there, I took the opportunity top gather some images of Lepe Beach and the now dilapidated Langley Tavern. I also took a few snaps of my shiny new Eton S350DL multiband radio.
