Honk!
Author Archives: ChrisC
Heavy Seas in Poldhu Cove
And another video! This time we have some heavy seas from Poldhu Cove in Cornwall. See other video and photographs from this trip here!
Gunwalloe Church Cove on a Stormy Day
More video potterings with a spot of footage taken at Gunwalloe Church Cove on a stormy day in March 2023.
Space Scapes from Foundation
I must have missed this the first time around but Apple has put up a series of Space Scapes from their rather enjoyable adaptation of Foundation.
Gosh!
From October 2023’s Ansible:
40 Years Ago, a Japanese con publication printed many ‘messages of support’ from UK/US authors. J.G. Ballard rose to the occasion: ‘That great feat of arms, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941, must now be repeated in the realm of the imagination — let the SF writers of Japan set out across the skies of the human psyche, each carrying a piece of that explosive future which will torpedo the battleships of complacency and inertia!’ (Ansible 35, October 1983)
Anisble, October 2023
From anyone else that would be a little on the nose, but from a man with Ballard’s history with the Japanese it’s something else entirely!
Overrated Cornwall – Anti-adverts for England’s most westerly county
‘Overrated Cornwall‘ is a set of anti-advertisement posters for one of my favourite British regions. Base off some truly terrible TripAdvisor reviews, they are firm proof that there is always someone, somewhere that’s terribly wrong in what they think.
Continue readingBuilding QEMU 8.0 on Raspberry Pi OS
Introduction
Another passing year brings the 8th major release of the incredibly versatile emulation platform QEMU.
As always, the fastest, simplest way to get QEMU onto Raspberry Pi OS is via the default package manager. Unfortunately, version 5.2 – the version currently offered via the package manager – is almost 3 years out of date and an awful lot of development has occurred since.
Fortunately building QEMU 8.0 is not that difficult.
QEMU in the Raspberry Pi OS package manager…
…alas the offered version is incredibly out of date!
Continue readingA Game Boy Camera to FaceTime Bridge
Completely impractical but with a delightfully retro output, this Game Boy Camera to FaceTime bridge is really rather neat.
Miserablism of the iPhone Variety.
The iPhone 15 Pro in it’s fundamentally miserable set of colours.
A Carbis Bay Timelapse from the Air
More potterings with the drone. This time it’s a timelapse of Carbis Bay shot in the summer of 2023.