Mauritius Blog Tracker

From November 2019 to January 2020, P and I holidayed in Tahiti. When COVID locked down England a couple of months later, the experience of our trip was quickly effaced and replaced by the anxieties of the day.… Read the rest.

I developed a third roll of Ferrania Solaris 100 today, and the pictures are meh, consistent with the previous two experiments.… Read the rest.

Previously I wrote that the Nikon FG-20 is not a suitable camera for practising photography. I argued that its flawed ergonomics did not make for a pleasant shooting experience and could even be the cause of my exposure mistakes.… Read the rest.

If your audio output suddenly sounds much lower than usual, check the volume settings of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Run the command alsamixer on the console and verify that the volume is as expected.… Read the rest.

I fancied doing some BASIC programming yesterday and wrote a prime sieve in PC-BASIC. Besides BASIC, other old computer tech has occupied my time lately.… Read the rest.

This evening I developed a roll of expired Ferrania Solaris 100 film, which I bought on eBay. It was ideal for testing because it had only 12 frames, which I could expose within a single day.… Read the rest.

My mother loves gardening. So, during the week she was with us, she never stopped saying that we needed to plant flowers.… Read the rest.

To open a file in a gVim (graphical Vim) instance that is already running, the following command is used. C:\gvim –remote-silent <filenameTo reduce the amount of typing needed, we can put the same command in a batch script file.… Read the rest.

Je n’ai pas grand chose à te dire. Et pas grand chose pour te faire rire. Car j’imagine toujours le pire.… Read the rest.

I am typing this in Bordeaux, after spending a few hours refurbishing laptops handed back to me by my sister-in-law before she leaves France.… Read the rest.