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Southampton Common Balloon Festival
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Rishi Sunak – yet another unelected pro-Brexit British prime minister
ByGarfSo it seems we have yet another unelected Tory prime minister. In addition to being Britain’s first British-Asian and Hindu PM, and the youngest PM in over two centuries, Rishi Sunak also has the distinction of being our third PM in seven weeks! This time there wasn’t even ballot for Tory Party members. He just…
New darktable is out today
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France heading towards Calais in MGF
ByGarfThis is our last day in France and we head back north towards the Channel ferry, in red MGF. Images taken with Canon Digital Ixus.
2013 Retrospective
ByGarf2013 was quite an interesting year for me, not least because we finally moved way from my tiny terraced cottage overlooking Southampton common, to a much larger place, where there is enough room for a reasonably usable home studio. Only moved 35km, but it felt like moving to another planet. Of course, it takes a…
Sonos alternative
ByGarfWe’re busy replacing a customer’s ageing Sonos distributed sound system with a Linux Media Server (c/w SAMBA for remaining Sonos kit) c/w these tiny Linux-powered SBCs (single board commuters) as replacements. Granted, this is merely a prototype. This unit is based upon a Raspberry pi 4B c/w 8GiB RAM, a capacitive touchscreen and an external…
