Southampton
A few snaps from around Southampton City Centre.
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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.
Backups: NAS vs external hard disk
Discussion came up on a forum to which I belong whether it is better to use NAS (network attached storage) or external hard drives for backup. My answer is why not use both? Effectively I have three NAS servers. One is a media server. The others are purely backup – though they can quickly be…
How I mounted my 120-year-old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens
Several people have contacted me privately and asked for information regarding how I actually mounted my 120-year-old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens on my µ4/3 camera. I hope in this article to shed a little light on how one can make such an old lens and seemingly-incompatible lens actually stay on a modern mirrorless…
Another walk across Southampton Common
It’s rather pleasant living opposite Southampton Common. Always lots to see and photograph, especially on a nice warm summer’s day like today. These shots were taken using a tiny Lumix DMC-LX1 digital camera. Pretty good results, I think, all things considered.
Backing up using big, cheap hard disks and some nifty Unix tools
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AI still not all that bright
Creating the main image for this year’s Christmas card was not the straightforward “one-click deal” I hoped it would be. Seems synthetic stupidity is very much alive and kicking in the world of artificial intelligence. Fact is, AI is still not all that bright. In order to create the one successful image we finally chose,…
