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Lisbon, Portugal, day 14
Today we caught the train down to Lisbon Beach, Portugal. Very pleasant it was too.
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Britain’s metrication fiasco
Britain has made a complete hash of metrication whilst failing to teach its young the basic numeracy skills to deal with the ridiculous anomalies that have arisen as a result. E.g… People who think 7.5 lbs is the same as 7 lb 5 oz. People who think of 0 as freezing 0 as boiling and…
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gOS – has the Google vs M$ war just “gone nuclear”?
Editors note: gOS was very shortlived. By 2011 it was gone. The new gOS operating system certainly would appear to up the ante in the ongoing war between the mighty Micro$haft and that pesky upstart Google. But is it any good and is it really Google? To find out, I just booted from the gOS…
Southampton Common Funfair
I’m far too tight-fisted ever to pay to go on a fairground ride. But I do rather enjoy photographing them. So I wandered across the common today with my Olympus C2500L to grab some snaps of the Southampton Common Funfair.
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Hong Kong with a new digital camera, part 6
I found myself in Hong Kong in Christmas 1998 and early January 1999, and decided to treat myself to a new camera. My first half-decent digital, an Olympus C1400L. These are some of its results…
A few snaps around Mui Wo
A few snaps around Mui Wo, the massive bike sheds and some of the vessels that dock there.
