Tim Almond

I’m trying to figure out some of the Wordpress code, and I’d like to raise a glass to the team behind it. It’s nicely structured, not too heavily overabstracted, and so quite easy to follow in order to make some changes.

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David Cameron orders shift to core Tory voters
David Cameron is preparing to move to core Tory policies on tax, marriage and crime and style himself as an heir to Margaret Thatcher - not Tony Blair.
In a shift that will see him distance himself from green tax proposals, the Tory leader will use next week’s […]

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So, you bought an iPhone, unlocked it, and now, you’re phones are getting bricked.
Unlocking file formats is sometimes just a necessary part of life. The people who reverse engineer the Microsoft .doc formats are doing it so that Open Office users can read and write them. They don’t have a choice if they want to […]

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“$100 Laptop to Sell to Public”

The offer to the general public comes after the project’s founder admitted that concrete orders from the governments of developing nations had not always followed verbal agreements.
then…
The laptops will go on sale for two weeks through the xogiving.org website.
They will only be available for two weeks […]

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I’m speechless.

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There’s a list at http://linuxpreloaded.com/ of companies who sell computer hardware with Linux already loaded on. There’s also a company called Linux Emporium in the UK who will set up a Lenovo Thinkpad (great hardware) with Linux pre-installed.

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Lib Dem Tax Plans
The Lib Dems stress that the tax rises, many of them to be debated today by the party’s conference in Brighton, will fund tax cuts for lower and middle-class people.
The problem is that it doesn’t work like that. It would only work if we each had set incomes and no flexibility in […]

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Some time ago, I took a look at Zimbra, which is an open source messaging and collaboration system. It competes in a similar space to Microsoft Exchange Server.
Yesterday, Yahoo bought Zimbra. This is good news, as it’s likely that Yahoo will be able to make some major investment in this.
I don’t know what their intentions […]

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The Wyvern Theatre in Swindon has been closed for some time after asbestos was found, and is about to reopen.
The good news is that there’s some opera on. Normally, I’d expect something well known like La Boheme or Turandot, and often sung in English, but instead we’re getting the bold choice of Bellini’s I Capuleti […]

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