Tim Almond

I’ve added a list of some favourite Swindon pubs.
If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know.

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There’s often talk in the Open Source world, about what the term "free" means, and is often qualified in two ways - "Free as in Freedom" and/or "Free as in Beer".
On the surface, it appears that only one of these is about business, the "free as in beer".
But the freedom to modify should be considered as part […]

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I’m looking for a domain name for a project, and a few rules have struck me about good domain names.
1) Get the .com, as well as the regional one. If the .com doesn’t exist, it’s probably worth moving on.
2) Make it memorable over descriptive. Don’t worry about what it says.  Amazon, eBay, Google and Yahoo […]

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A recent aquisition was a new Smart Café Cafetiere Mug, designed by Sebastian Conran.  They work as an all-in-one cafetiere, a mug with a built in plunger. Which means that making coffee wherever you want can be done with 1 less piece of equipment.
It works very well, producing a good cup of coffee and the […]

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Matthew Cruickshank has released code for a web service to convert from .doc to either OpenDocument (used by OpenOffice.org) or HTML.
I can see this as useful for companies trying to move off .doc. If a mail arrives in .doc format, have the web server convert it directly to a .sxw for the user. If you […]

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If you are going to build a website, here’s some thoughts…
1) Don’t make me give you anything you don’t need to know. I recently visited a site asking me "where did you hear about us" which I ignored. But the site insisted I had to input it and annoyed me. Do you want my money […]

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Joshua Eichorn has written something that makes a really good use of AJAX*, a way to present a user with the upload progress.
I’ve done some large uploads in the past, and the process always looks a little untidy due to flickering, and this is a good solution.
Ajax File Upload
*AJAX stands for Asynchronous Java and XML […]

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Who is going to buy an Origami machine? OK, Robert Scoble aside, who is going to buy one?
From what I can see, it’s too big to be portable and yet won’t deliver the power of my laptop. If I consider my mobile computing uses they range from looking up the number of a local taxi […]

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"Nothing, not all the armies of the world can stop an idea whose time has come" Victor Hugo
Working from Victor Hugo’s quote, what do we actually mean by "an idea whose time has come"? What creates the situation where an idea’s time comes? Often it is technology.
William Tyndale was a  Baptist who translated the bible […]

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For the first time, I’ve tried a Linux Desktop which just seems to work. That’s not to say that it does everything I need, or that I’m switching tomorrow, but a lot of what I need a desktop for is there.
The desktop I’m running is Ubuntu Linux, which is a free version of Linux, […]

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