Today we went to the beautiful city of Kyoto, on one of Japan’s legendary Nozomi Shinkansen trains. The Nozomi is Japan’s fastest train service and runs on the Tokaido and San’yō Shinkansen lines. The service only stops at the largest stations. Its N700 series rolling stock reaches speeds of 83 metres per second (300 km/h | 186 mph).
We also spent quite a lot of time photographing Kyoto’s magnificent railway station building. Then we rounded the day off with a trip up the famous Kyoto Tower.
Went to visit my uncle in Brechfa Wales , with former New Millennium features editor Sarah Keen to take a look at the Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth while I was in the area. This has been posted retrospectively. This images were originally taken and scanned from 35mm film to appear in articles I…
More astute observers may have noticed that GarfNet has changed a bit lately. You may also have observed that some features are missing and some don’t work at all. We’re really sorry about this. Trouble is that Garfnet is currently upgrading its main CMS (content management system) from Joomla 1.0.x to Joomla 1.5.x. This task…
A few snaps of our new MGF in the New Forest, outside the Reptile Centre, Lyndhurst. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus.
Skip preamble and launch METAR applet now. This is a modern rework of a very old PHPWeather project that we eventually abandoned nearly a decade ago. I built this new version in PHP/MYSQL pretty much from scratch, albeit with a lot of help from PerplexityAI. Its main emphases are speed and simplicity. Basically it collects…
Wandered into Kowloon today, camera at the ready. I’ve always been particularly fascinated by Canton Road, where there are tiny shops packed to the ceilings with engineering bits, bearings springs etc. And other emporia with distinctly amusing names.
Well they say absolute power corrupts. On the other hand the two companies are quite different. The corporate ethos and the attitude towards creativity are almost complete opposites. For example, I never heard any Google execs reported as using expressions such a “embrace, extend and extinguish“… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish And I think or at least I…
