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2014 Retrospective
ByGarfIt’s the end of our second full year in our new home. Here are some random retrospective snaps from the year that’s just shot past us.
Temporary Shutdown
ByGarfDue to a major upgrade to this site, it may be necessary to take GarfNet off line for a while. The business part of Garfnet is already handled by deoss.com, so customers will not be affected. It may take some time to move/update all the legacy material here. Some projects may never reappear. However, we…
Lisbon, Portugal, day 12
ByGarfToday we went to Estoril.
Treo 650 Smartphone
ByGarfA client has lent me a Palm Treo to play with for a few weeks. The Palm Treo is quite an interesting device, it combines the functionality of a mobile phone with a Palm Pilot. It’s built in camera is rather poor and its design needs some work. But I suspect what I have in…
Hedgehog in the garden
ByGarfFor some time now, this little fellow has frequented our garden. We have a sort of hedgehog highway behind the shed. And because we have no cats or dogs, they hedgehogs are free to pretty much come and go as they please.
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…
