This blog entry was co-authored by my inner child.
December 2010
Step 1: Go to the website of the Mozilla Foundation (a non-profit organization that plays the leading role in supporting and organizing open-source software projects such as the web browser Firefox and the mail client Thunderbird ), find their donation page for the Drumbeat projects :
https://donate.mozilla.org/page/contribute/openwebfund?WT.ac=adopt_h
Step 2: Select the donation option $25.00 - Dino plush toy please! , enter your credit card and address data, and press the submit button — as it is certainly a good idea to donate something right before Christmas.
Step 3: Wait for your present (presumably a dino plush toy, cf. step 2).
January 2011
Step 4: Wait.
Step 5: Exactly one month after your donation, receive an e-mail telling you that the production of your present is being postponed and that shipping will start later that month.
Step 6: Wait patiently.
February 2011
Step 7: As it is already the middle of the next month now, stop waiting patiently and write an e-mail in reply to the above-mentioned e-mail (see step 5) asking very politely what
Step 8: Receive an auto-responder reply telling you that the responsible person is on vacation.
Step 9: Receive an actual reply by said person who apologizes and tells you that the shipping will begin the same week.
Step 10: Wait.
Step 11: Get delivered a parcel which is shipped from the UK by Einschreiben (a concept similar to certified mail or registered mail , according to Wikipedia). Of course, you are not at home then.
Step 12: Finally receive the package.
Step 13: Unwrap it.
Step 14: Be happy.
Step 15: Start wondering what
Step 16: Write a blog entry about it.
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