Tim Almond

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 The Observer reported at the weekend: Why Vista will mean the end of the Microsoft monolith
This is just wishful thinking on someone’s part. Microsoft isn’t close to being finished. I have rarely seen someone running Linux, Unix or a Mac on their desktop in a large corporation. The times that I have, they were engineers, […]

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I was once asked to be the photographer for a friend’s wedding. At 24 hours notice. The reason would have been because I’m considered, in the family to be a reasonably good photographer. The only problem is that I mostly do countryside, landscapes and architecture.
Having done it, I would argue that wedding photography is a […]

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This is driving me mad. Does anyone out there use Apache 2 with Wordpress and have permalinks working OK?

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I generally avoid the free DVDs in newspapers. Mostly, they’re terrible movies.
However, in Saturday’s (9th Sep 2006) Times (London) there is a free DVD of the brilliant Belleville Rendez-Vous, a French animation. It’s mostly silent with language more as expressions (like Jaques Tati), so you don’t have to stare at subtitles.
It is a more mature […]

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My DVD drive is playing up, so I need a new one, and I fancy getting one with LightScribe that would allow me to burn a "label" onto discs. The HP one (840i) looks good. Any thoughts?
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Does anyone go blackberrying any more? It’s something that I always remember doing as a child, and always remember lots of other people doing it too. I just don’t see anyone much doing it nowadays.
I took a pleasant walk on sunday in Swindon along the route of the old railway track from Old Town to […]

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Today, I have put live the new weblog for Robert Buckland, Conservative PPC for South Swindon. You can view it at http://www.robertbuckland.co.uk. It’s version 1, so there’s a lot of changes to happen.
We had a previous site, but we’ve moved platforms to Wordpress managed by us which gives a lot more flexibility in design.
It’s been […]

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… or why Joel Spolsky is right
The issue of which language to choose is about looking at the externalities.
If a new car company appeared making high quality cars in low volumes, something that was better built than a Lexus, why wouldn’t you buy it?
 For starters, Lexus are likely to be around for a long time. […]

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