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Please may I have GarfNet Pictures account?
ByGarfEditors note 2024-07-06: The old Coppermine gallery is closing shortly and we are no longer hosting users’ images on GarfNet. It has been replaced with a NextGen Gallery instance that is closely integrated with our WordPress based CMS, and only manages images pertaining to this site. We have a fairly large picture site over at…
Eighteen Years of GarfNet
ByGarf1995-08-18 to 2013-08-18 Editors note: quite a lot of this article is obsolete. The site has changed quite a lot since 2013! GarfNet is penguin-powered and full of unixy goodness! Yep! we’re “open source” and enjoying every moment of it. GNU/Linux is serving us so well that there is hardly a whiff of the mighty…
Reintroducing Storks to Britain
ByGarfFollowing on from my post about Szofi and Macus, seems people all over Europe are cheering for them. They’ve become storky superstars! 🙂 Meantime back here in old Blighty, storks’ 360,000 year archaeological relationship with Britain came to an end several centuries ago, when it seems they were hunted to extinction. However, there currently three sites…
Converting inexpensive LED flood lights for use in the studio.
ByGarfThis is how I converted three left-over cheapie (£60 for a box of ten, delivered) 20 watt daylight LED flood lights for use in the studio. The basic tools you need:- Vernier or digital caliper, M10 ISO metric taps. Suitable spanner (17mm AF). Bench vice. Electrician’s screwdriver and wire strippers, to make the electrical connections….
Mui Wo brushfire
ByGarfToday we had a fairly big brushfire up in the Mui-Wo Hills. A helicopter carrying a large bucket of water was dispatched to put out the fire, along with several fire engines. The helicopter, tail number B-HRN is a Eurocopter AS-332L2 Super Puma Mk2, owned by the Hong Hong government. More about this aircraft https://airport-data.com/aircraft/B-HRN
1993 Prague – a 35mm film retrospective
ByGarfAn old pal was studying at at Prague University on an exchange year for his degree. He asked me if I would care to join him for a week or two. So I made my way to London’s Victoria Bus and I hopped aboard a Prague bound bus carrying a small bag of clothes and…
