A few springtime snaps around the old homestead
Well, the weather has perked up a bit, But we can’t actually go out and do very much because of coronavirus lockdown. So I thought Id take a few springtime snaps around the old homestead.
For reasons I will never understand, it seems the United States has just re-elected 34-times convicted criminal and adjudicated rapist Donald J Trump as its president. As a Brit, sadly there is nothing I can do about this. All I can offer the world is a few futile acts of defiance, whilst mercilessly ridiculing jumped-up…
Fora all over the worldwide web are buzzing that Windows 10 reached end of life, c/w cries of “…but, but, my computer won’t run Windows 11“. Whatever shall we do? These fora offer various solutions, almost all involving using more proprietary products of the same large foreign IT corporation that caused this problem in the…
I rather like LED lighting. I never cease to be amazed what one can do with it – and do very cheaply. So I decided to have a bit of fun in the studio, with some of the latest budget RGB LED and a couple of Cokin starburst filters.
Spent the day Trabant Spotting in Pécs, Hungary. Actually I was looking for any Soviet era stuff that probably won’t be around for very much longer.
Wagner Group rebellion presents further serious difficulties for Putin Seems that Vlad the Invader and the leader mercenary army he hired to bolster his own failing army in Ukraine have had a major falling out. Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin claims that Russia bombed his Ukraine HQ killing 2000 of his men and has vowed…
Ubuntu Ubuntu uses the Gnome desktop. This is a very clean, simple environment and is well suited to Linux beginners. In many respects it is much easier to use than any version of MS Windows – though its layout is a little different from Windows. For example, its application menus are at the top of…