This area is reserved for my occasional ramblings and musings.
Well, join the club! This horrid, resource-hogging monstrosity is the bane of my life. My advice? Dump Norton – if you can manage to uninstall the damned thing! My experience of Norton Antivirus is that it behaves much like the viruses it is supposed to protect you from… Uses lots of processing power. Stops other…
Hey there all you happening geese out there in Internetland. Don’t watch this rubbish. Come visit my new blog. It’s really good… http://www.garfnet.org.uk/wordpress You know it makes sense! Trust me, I’m a goose… Related Images:
Editor’s note: this was written back in 2006, and it is hopelessly out-of-date. Trouble is that today one is spoilt for choice, manufacturers claims are often difficult to understand or substantiate and prices are tumbling so quickly that no sooner than you take your PC home, you see the same model, with more extras, selling…
Garf Technology is something of a ‘lifestyle business‘. This is where one is more concerned with doing things ‘well‘ & enjoying it, rather than trying to make a ‘fast buck‘. Or as a more sceptical observer might put it: somehow I manage to get paid to do my various hobbies! I love it! Sometimes I…
Today we took a boat trip from from Mui Wo to Cheung Chau, and had a bit of a wander. Related Images:
A few snaps around Mui Wo, the massive bike sheds and some of the vessels that dock there. Related Images:
I eas feeling particularly poorly today. Do I gave my girlfriend my camera and sent her off to take a few snaps of the Giant Buddha nest to Lin Po monastery, high up in he Lantau hills. Related Images:
Wandered into Pécs town again today and took a few snaps. In particular I wanted to grab a few images of Pécs’ very stylish Hotel Palatinus just as the lights come on. Located a few metres from the town centre, and set back a little from the main thoroughfare, Kyraly Utca, it is easy to…
Traubi or traubisoda is a brand of soft drink flavoured with grape juice. It is produced in Hungary, Austria and Croatia. Before 1995, in Hungary, it was made by a factory called Traubi Hungaria located in the village of Balatonvilágos. The company produces the drink from a special type of Hungarian grapes, called saszla. The…
Walking back to Pécs through the snow. Today, even the rougher prts of town have a strange beauty, now they’re covered with snow. Related Images:
Girlfriend and I stayed overnight at the Batthyány Kastélyszálló, a few kilometres from Pécs. Interesting place – it was lovely outside, but a bit rough inside, with plaster literally peeling off the walls. Still, it was good fun. Related Images:
The Hungarian city of Pécs shortly after a snowfall. Related Images:
“Scanning all done.” 2005 Christmas card, by Zsuzsanna Dora Majlati. Related Images:
Today we visited Hungary’s 10th largest city, Szombathely, to visit a chap who has invented a rather nifty LED ring flash unit. Related Images:
Day trip to London to see the lights.. Related Images:
Today we took a road trip n the MX5 to the Studland Peninsula and Sandbanks, in Dorset. Related Images:
Portsmouth’s Highbury College shortly after it received a fairly major refurbishment. Related Images:
Today we caught the train down to Lisbon Beach, Portugal. Very pleasant it was too. Related Images:
Day 13 of our trip to Lisbon. Jst a couple of snaps around the newer parts of the city. Related Images:
Today we went to Estoril. Related Images:
