Merry Christmas 2009
Christmas card 2009.
“Ebenezer Goose does his Christmas Shopping”
Earlier Christmas cards:-
https://garfnet.org.uk/cms/category/christmas-cards
Mr.Goose’s infamous Webfooted Weblog:-
http://garfnet.org.uk/mrgoose
Earlier Christmas cards:-
https://garfnet.org.uk/cms/category/christmas-cards
Mr.Goose’s infamous Webfooted Weblog:-
http://garfnet.org.uk/mrgoose
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…
Took a trip to Lymington, Hampshire, then to Langley, near Blackfield and took a few snaps of a large stag beetle.
Out for the day with Chiara, my Italian researcher and photo model. Only this time Chiara was behind the camera.
Found myself in Southampton’s Ocean Village, with a reasonably decent camera. So I decided to grab a few snaps.
Nowadays, one reads a lot about open source equivalents of proprietary software. Often these are described as poor substitutes for the real thing. However, some open source apps are starting seriously to outperform their proprietary counterparts. Mozilla Firefox is a classic example of this phenomenon. GNUCash is another. GNUCash vs Microsoft Money I was a…