A few of my favourite things
Well it’s a cold bleak miserable Southampton winter’s day outside. Decided to take a few “library” snaps of some current favourite bits of kit, including a rather nice pair of wideband communications receivers.
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Tai O
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What about WEBP?
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…
Pecs at Christmas
Spent the Christmas with my girlfriend’s parents in Pecs, Hungary. They are lovely people and Pecs is a lovely place. And there is always something quite special about central European Christmases. (More pictures to follow)
Road trip to Hungary, part 2
Calais > Strasbourg Always had rather a soft spot for Strasbourg, with its strange dialect (Alsatian) and its complicated history. It’s also hope to the Council of Europe and the EU Parliament. It’s also home to a lot of white storks. Other days Part 1 You are here: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4…
Shattaf – a healthy solution to the toilet roll shortage
Left: complete installation including toilet, cistern, isolating valve hose, mounting bracket and the shattaf itself. Right: Close-up of shattaf. It is quite small, measuring approximately 11 cm long and about 6 cm front-to-back. As the coronavirus crisis deepens, seems we also have the deeply undignified spectacle of fully grown adults publicly fighting each other as…
Long spring weekend in Paris, day 3
Decided to take my new girlfriend and a Fuji S2 Pro to Paris for a long weekend. Today we went up the Eiffel Tower. and took lots of pictures across the city. Camera: Fuji S2 Pro.
