…all metal construction, and comes with 35 metal gobos and five coloured filters. Unfortunately seems most of these things come with Bowens mount. My lights are all what is laughingly…
…is virtually endless at the moment. Jonathan Pie in self isolation Meantime, here’s how Tom Walker, better known as Jonathan Pie is handling self isolation and working from home… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZ_5cm5eXA…
…complete with stands, brollies etc. via sellers on eBay. They were quite a bargain. Each flash head worked out at approximately £50 per unit, They are branded “Senweit” but were…
…and some nifty toys from deoss.org. The .org part of DEOSS is being parked-up for a while. Meantime the .com tales care of the business side, whilst the .net manages…
…thus saving eighty-five quid (or more) Microsoft Tax. My mum is in her seventies and she really does not like computers at all. Interestingly, she says she prefers Ubuntu to…
…storks are particularly associated with Sussex. The Saxon name for the village of Storrington, ~15km north west of Worthing, was originally “Estorchestone”, meaning “the village of the storks”. https://knepp.co.uk/white-storks https://www.whitestorkproject.org/…
…the full five years. Media failure is pretty random and can happen at the most embarrassing time. My strategy… Get your data downloaded onto your PC and backed up asap.…
…my computers – amongst many other things. 🙂 IP security cameras. Raspberry Pi-4 GNU/Linux Zoneminder and WeeWX security/environment monitoring server – no moving parts an uses just 5 watts!!! That…
A lot of folks complaining that they have to go buy yet another set of USB leads, thanks to this newfangled USB C plug that’s come along. So what’s it…
…Nevertheless, WebP is actually quite clever. In addition to offering slightly better lossy compression, it also supports lossless compression, similar to another popular open format, PNG (portable network graphics). And…
…2007-06-16 and 2007-06-17 Firstly, I managed to glean from some friendly Trabi enthusiasts that there is a heirchical distinction between the four-stroke models and the earlier two-stroke versions. Cars fitted…
…an excellent content management system called Coppermine. These links will take you to the key areas. All galleries (Media Home) Archive Internet Garf’s digital images Keyword Search Latest comments Latest…
…it’s scaleable. It runs best on a LAMPP server. There are many add-ons and plugins for it and it has a very active development and support community. More info… http://www.joomla.org…
Drunken bumblebees working the lavender in our garden. Seems Bumblebees have longer tongues than ordinary worker bees and can reach to the bottom of the lavender flowers in order to…
…was essentially a massive cock up. I’m reminded of Hanlon’s Razor:- Never ascribe to malice anything that can adequately be explained by stupidity… Russia managed to bomb an alleged 2000…
…This gave it access to a sizable wad of EU cash – enough to tart-up some of its crumbling monuments, that were so badly neglected under the communists. Sadly however,…
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,…
These are some alternative, non SI metric units that are in common use… Quantity Unit Symbol Alternative Unit Length angstrom Å 1.00E-10 metres Length micron µ 1.00E-06 metres Volume litre…
…BD Barbados BB Belarus BY Belgium BE Belize BZ Benin BJ Bermuda BM Bhutan BT Bolivia BO Bosnia-Herzegovina BA Botswana BW Bouvet Island BV Brazil BR British Indian Ocean Territory…
…has resigned as Tory party leader but is still in office as PM! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/gone-but-not-gone-boris-johnson-quits-but-clings-on-to-power I had planned to write a piece about Boris Johnson’s final fall from grace. But then…
…all the Cat Face episodes. https://www.youtube.com/user/bigcatface Also be sure to check out Weeblestuff over on Youtube. In addition to full length Cat Face Catchups you’ll find many other classics such…
I don’t quite know how I managed it but my personal/business dataset has now grown to around 17 Terrabytes. Most of it is spread across multiple smaller disks. This is…
There was an unusually heavy fall of snow overnight. So I thought I would wander across to the Common and grab a few snaps. 1 2 ►…
