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Merry Christmas 2024
ByGarfWishing you a very merry peaceful Christmas, followed by a happy, successful New Year. Creating this year’s card This year we wanted to do something a little different. So we decided to deploy Stable Diffusion open source artificial intelligence to generate the main image. Unfortunately AI is not good at drawing signs. So that was…
Long spring weekend in Paris, day 4
ByGarfDecided to take my new girlfriend and a Fuji S2 Pro to Paris for a long weekend. Last day here sadly, though we did manage to visit Le Louvre and grab a few nice street shots too. Camera: Fuji S2 Pro.
Is Linux a “disruptive technology”?
ByGarfIf you do a google search for “disruptrive technology” and the word “Linux”, you’re likely to get over 50,000 hits. Trouble is that many of the articles that appear are quite old, often going back as far as 2001 and further. A lot has happened in the last few years… For a start, today we…
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,…
Kenwood House, London
ByGarfWent to a concert at Kenwood House, London, which was followed by some quite spectacular fireworks.
Hungarian rebels against the “Microsoft Tax”
ByGarf[Reproduced from DEOSS ] Seems that Micro$haft’s corporate enslavement permeates far beyond the English-speaking world. A long and complex legal battle is currently raging in the former Eastern Bloc state of Hungary. APEH (the Hungarian Tax Office) has decided that all Hungarian businesses now have to submit their tax returns on-line. This would not be…
