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Day trip to Macau

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ByGarf created2009-04-18 23:592026-06-08 00:06 updated2026-06-08 00:06

I hopped aboard a catamaran and took a day trip to Macau today. I took a camera too…

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Budapest and Balaton
ByGarf 2005-04-292026-06-08

One of my girlfriends best friends kindly collected us from Budapest airport and drove us to Pécs via Balaton.

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MM866 – an affordable gobo projector
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A thread on a photographic forum to which I belong started me thinking about using gobos. I always liked the idea of a proper gobo projector, but for a modifier that I would likely only use occasionally, I didn’t like the cost. So I decided to have a look around to see if there were…

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GNUCash – serious open source accounting software
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Nowadays, one reads a lot about open source equivalents of proprietary software. Often these are described as poor substitutes for the real thing. However, some open source apps are starting seriously to outperform their proprietary counterparts. Mozilla Firefox is a classic example of this phenomenon. GNUCash is another. GNUCash vs Microsoft Money I was a…

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ByGarf 2004-08-162025-02-06

Netherlands > Afsluitdijk Today we took one of my favourite European drives, over the Dutch Afsluitdijk (or “Closure Dyke”, in English). Other days Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 You are…

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Seems there is quite a lot of buzz about a “new” image format called “WebP” that is seeing increasing use on-line recently. Although it is attributed to Google, WebP was not strictly a Google invention. It was originally developed by On2 of New York as part of its VP* series “Truemotion” video codecs. Google acquired…

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The WebOnCD concept concerns putting standard HTML (hypertext mark-up language) pages on a local removable disc such as a CD ROM or DVD. Simple WebOnCD publications are very easy to create. They require little previous programming experience, and no special software. Any text editor such as Notepad for Windows, KDE KWrite or Kate for GNU/Linux…

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