It’s a beautiful spring day here in south east Hampshire. And it’s dead quiet thanks to the Coronavirus lockdown. And the northern sky that normally liberally criss-crossed with vapour trails is a perfect clear sky blue, with no aircraft within 50 km or more.
MGF by the Angel of the North and by the cooling towers at Ferrybridge power station. Camera: Olympus C2500L.
For continuous lighting, one needs a light source that has good colour balance, uses power efficiently, is reasonably robust and does not present a health or fire risk. I am also a tightwad – interested primarily in “bangs per buck”. Whilst I love new technology, I am not prepared to pay silly money for it….
Thought we’d cross the border today and visit Basel, in Switzerland. Left the MGF at the gite and took the train instead. I was accompanied by former New Millennium features editor Sarah Keen and her very knowledgeable aunt Jeanne. Camera: Canon Digital Ixus.
Geese lament over Brexit and Trump. Painted by Zusannah Dora Majlati, 2016.
At time of writing, we have got all the following Windoze apps running very adequately on Linux – using either WINE or Codeweavers Crossover (a commercial implementation of WINE). Of course we have replaced many legacy Windoze applications with equivalent (or sometimes better) Linux apps. Other Windoze apps are currently irreplaceable. This is an assessment…
