Free and Open Source Software

Open Source Windows offers some of the best “alternative software” for your Windows PC.
Open Source Mac does the same for Apple users.
Both sites have two pages of links to some of the best Open Source software available.

Who owns the Internet?

Simon Perry came across a great spoof site about net neutrality.
Well worth a visit - http://www.weownthenet.org/ .

Star Gazing

I am sure I’ve mentioned Ipoints before; well, I recently managed to have enough for £80 worth of Amazon vouchers. Thats’ quite a few books, but having recently signed up for a short course with the Open University to teach us about astronomy, we decided to put this free dosh towards a telescope - a [...]

Meon Valley - Brian Curd vs Brian Curd!

The weather yesterday didn’t look too promising for a round of golf vs Brian Curd at Meon Valley (see “What’s in a name?“). Fortunately the early rain didn’t spoil the day for the pair of us and by mid round the sun was shining again and it was definitely “shirt sleeve” golf.
I managed to take [...]

Family BBS restored

I have just reinstalled the Curd Family BBS.
If you have reached this blog while searching for information on the Curd family, you may be interested to visit the BBS - http://www.curdfamily.com/bbs

Free 1901 Census info

Ancestry.com have today announced free access to their 1901 info:

Fill your boots!

What’s in a name?

Got an email the other day asking me to visit Meon Valley golf course in Hamphire. Nothing particulary strange in that I suppose; it was just that the sender was called Brian Curd!
He suggested the meet in order to confuse his usual playing partners - success guaranteed I suspect.
Anyhow, Brian also suggested that a Curd [...]