Escape to Hong Kong – Botanical Gardens
Decided to take visit the flamingoes in Hong Kong’s amazing Botanical Gardens.
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A very sleepy goose
A few snaps of my goosy friends on Southampton Common…
Treo 650 Smartphone
A client has lent me a Palm Treo to play with for a few weeks. The Palm Treo is quite an interesting device, it combines the functionality of a mobile phone with a Palm Pilot. It’s built in camera is rather poor and its design needs some work. But I suspect what I have in…
Lebara, what a con
This is the tale of yet another crappy British telecoms provider. On 2025-12-05, I bought and paid for 30GB per month Lebara data SIM card from its Amazon store. But the SIM card Lebara sent was ONLY 25GB. What a con! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQLKFN4H I did not notice that I had been cheated, until it was too…
Trabant Spotting in Pécs, Hungary
Spent the day Trabant Spotting in Pécs, Hungary. Actually I was looking for any Soviet era stuff that probably won’t be around for very much longer. And I actually got to drive a Trabi! Though to be honest, having actually driven a Trabant, I’m not really in much of a hurry to drive another one!
Escape to Hong Kong II – a bite of dum sung
A very enjoyable meal with my pal’s Chinese girlfriend’s folks.
Setting file and directory properties separately and recursively
Sometimes in GNU/Linux one needs to set file and directory permissions separately and recursively. This is a way to do it. Set file permissions:- find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 ; Set directory permissions- find . -type d -exec chmod 755 \{\} \; Note these are powerful commands with which you…
