WALLPAPERS
PHOTOS
Blog
Blog Archives, all I ever wrote, soe fro before the word blog was invented.
WiFi
Wireless Stuff, Including Meshap, and Stuff for piertopier.net
Dinghy
Stuff about dinghies
Scripts
PHP Scripts, MySql Queries and Stuff
Trip One
Tom's travels in 98/99 from the Canaries to Thailand
Trip Two
Tom's Travels in 2001 from Canaries to Brighton via the Caribbean
Odd's and Ends
Odd bits of info on places I've visited, people I've sailed with etc.
2007/8 Trip
Sailing the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific 2007/8
Pilotage
Yacht Cruising Infomation and Pilotage NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION
Tom's Travels
Off again to islands and oceans. Mostly this is videos desktop wallpapers etc, most of the news and write ups go into my blog these days
HHG2O Extra
The Hitchhikers Guide to the ocean, Tom's TV show - website - youtube thingamybob. With Coconuts. The Story of my 2010 trip across the Caribbean and Pacific. In TV style epesodes. This pages is only and extention of the main HHG20 page
latest blog:
BLOG ARCHIVESLive Stream Sports 2025
I did how to stream the rugby a while back. last one was OK:
Now I've had an ammo box full of batteries an adapter for my drill batteries to a bump voltage regulator various Elgarto Game capture USB's a cheap Wifi HDMI to h264 encoder (bad) a terradek (worse) 3 different camcorders. Now using none of the above.
The Elgarto USB's are incredibly sensitive to jogs. The encoder boxes seem to only work wired. Camcorders Suck. None of 'em have enough battery life.
OBS (open Broadcast Studio) is still Excellent - coupled with the cheapest cam link clone and a tripod and my mirrorless sony camera (not a video camera) is the best setup I have yet had and the only dedicated kit was the cheap camlink clone, er about 20 bucks three years ago and a usb cabled dummy battery for the camera again about 20 bucks.
The Mirrorless Sony a6000 is far better than any camcorder. It has a rubber gromit in the battery compartment so you can put a dummy battery with USBs on it and use a power bank.
The new laptop - AMD Ryzen on board graphics uses 3% cpu when encoding h265 - yeah HVEC at 6000 bitrate, so lasts longer than my custom battery hacks ever did, and its usb c - so I can use a 66w capable usb C power bank with it.
A bean bag stable table on the tripod for the laptop and bob's very much your mothers brother. Umbrella on standby - this is wet season!
I don't have a roof rack I can stand on any more need to borrow a ute next time.
12° 26.3' S, 130° 50.4' E
