Trump memes collection
Just a wee collection of Donald Trump memes I have collected over the years. I plan to add to the collection from time-to-time, as I stumble across them. Some of them are a bit rude. But then again, so is Trump…
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Escape to Hong Kong II – Central
Went into Central with my hots today. It was quite hot and we didn’t do much. But I did manage to grab a handful moderately good snaps.
Making a 120-year-old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens work on a modern mirrorless camera
Over Christmas I set myself a little task of trying to make a 120-year- old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens fit on a fairly modern camera. The lens was given to me in the late 1980’s by one of my very first models. It was a nice thought but to be honest, I came…
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Persuading ThumbsPlus for Windows to work on Ubuntu Linux
This is a crude but effective way to make one of my favourite Windows applications, Cerious Software’s ThumbsPlus! version 6 or 7 work reasonably well on Linux, by using Codeweavers Crossover. This is something of a bodge and it has come about more by trial and error rather than by rational scientific reasoning – so…
London Golf Show – arrival the night before
My girlfriend was working for the London Golf Show and asked me if I’d care to join her in for a few days ad take lots of pictures of the show. Naturally I agreed. These are a few snaps as we arrived the night before the show began, at the Excel Centre, London.
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Is a smartphone a substitute for a proper camera?
“Is a smartphone a substitute for a proper camera?” was an interesting question, posed on a photographic forum to which I belong . It certainly got me thinking… Firstly, I think there is a certain element of “using the right tool for the job” here. An analogy if I may: one can (un)do most screws…
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New darktable is out today
It’s quite an exciting time in the FOSS graphics world at the moment. After a long, long wait, GIMP 3.0 is finally at RC1 (first release candidate) stage. Debian 13 (Trixie aka Testing) users have just received the long-awaited KDE Plasma 6 desktop – with full Wayland support. Which I have to say that after…
