I decided to take another wander around Kowloon today. Nathan Road is always fun at night. The gaudy neon signs are surprisingly photogenic, if you like that sort of thing. And you get excellent views of Hong Kong from across the harbour.
Today is my wife’s wedding anniversary 🙂 and she has a bit of a penchant for white storks. I think it is a Central European obsession. Anyway, she said we should go visit the white storks at the recently rewilded 1416 hectare Knepp Estate in West Sussex. So I packed my little Lumix DMC-GX7 camera…
Considering that internet radio has become quite a hot topic on this site, I thought it might be useful to compile a database file for Yuri Saurov’s excellent and increasingly popular Advanced Radio Player widget for the KDE plasma desktop. This list contains international streams for all the BBC national and local stations. It also…
Whilst I am deeply sceptical about artificial “intelligence”, I’m also having quite a lot of fun with it too. Over the last eighteen months, I’ve gone from generating header images for blog articles, ugly images of unpleasant politicians and surreal greetings cards, to creating entire virtual shoots. Today, it also serves as a serious learning…
Merry Christmas 2023 from GarfNet, in a cold, damp, wet and windy Old Blighty. Like last year, its all a tad dull and gloomy here and many folks here are not exactly brimming with festive cheer, this year. Nevertheless, merry Christmas anyway… 🙂 About the picture The photo is entitled “The easily LED geese of…
“Oh no it isn’t!” A little goosy Yuletide humour. Mr Goose objects to his fellow geese being eaten for Christmas.
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.
