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New BBC internet radio streams 2025
ByGarfEditor’s note: TL;DR Latest streams can be found here. For reasons best known to itself, the BBC decided to close many of its internet radio streams yesterday (2025-01-21). Fortunately there are alternatives. After a bit of scrambling and hacking, I’ve been able to cobble together an updated list of BBC national and local radio stations,…
Corfe Castle
ByGarfA road trip to Corfe Castle and Sandbanks, Dorset, in an MGF roadster. Includes a few snaps of the Sandbanks chain ferry.
Facebook’s fortunes on the turn…
ByGarfSocial networking platforms come and go. Does anyone remember Myspace? or Bebo? Granted, Facebook has enjoyed a longer run than most. But today saw parent company Meta’s shares plummet by a staggering $226 billion. That’s the biggest one-day loss for any US company, ever. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/03/facebook-stock-shares-meta-mark-zuckerberg This comes on top of news last month that a…
Merry Christmas 1996
ByGarfChristmas, a grim time for geese.
Escape to Hong Kong – Fires in the Mui Wo Hills
ByGarfTook a few snaps of large helicopters dropping water bombs on some bush firs in the hills behind my pal’s house in Mui Wo.
Digital sounds dirt cheap
ByGarfI’m often amazed by the money some Hi-Fi buffs spend on their systems. I’m something of a tightwad, and I took a rather different approach. This involves mixed tech – or as I prefer to call it, “appropriate technology“. I run one of these. It used to be an Acer Windows box, but all that…
