Christmas tree lit by LED
Our little Christmas tree looks quite pretty this year. And we decorated it with a very long string of LED lights.
What is TOR? TOR, is an abbreviation of The Onion Router, usually written as “Tor”. It is a free and open-source network that enables anonymous communication on the internet by routing users’ traffic through multiple layers of encryption, similar to the layers of an onion. It helps protect users’ privacy, hides their IP address and…
Regular readers will know I’m quite a Tandberg fan – especially arguably Vebjørn Tandberg’s greatest works, the Huldra series. Well Tandberg commissioned pewter maker Haugrud to produce several commemorative pewter products to celebrate its products. I’ve had a set of the 50mL whisky tots for years. My late father was given them when he ran…
I was fortunate to be given a rather nice 20mm f/1.7 Lumix prime lens. So obviously I needed to test it. A 20 mm with a nice wide aperture is particularly good for street photography. So I braved the awful weather and made my way to Southsea one wet and windy Sunday afternoon, and grabbed…
Following on from my last article, this is Raspberry π4 8GB for Zoneminder part 2. Now I have had time to set it up and test it for a while. Firstly, I decided to abandon the ARM64 version of Ubuntu on π because it seems slow and clunky. Basically it seems the current beta ARM64…
I always had rather a soft spot for geese. There used to be a small gaggle of them on the Cemetery Lake, on the Common, opposite my old place in Southampton. Back in the days of film, they were always excellent models to shoot off the last few frames of a film. And they seemed…