Tim Almond

As a fan of both Star Wars and PT Anderson, this rates as genius.

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Hearty Congratulations to uber political blogger Ellee Seymour on passing her CIPR diploma.

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From the Times

The personal and bank details of 25 million people - almost every child in the country as well as their parents and carers - have been lost by HM Revenue & Customs, the Government admitted today.
Names, addresses, dates of birth, employment and bank details all went missing when two CDs containing the information […]

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Next time, I’ll just write about something less contentious, like abortion or religion.
Jackie Danicki closing comments on her quite reasonable post suggesting that the Mac mantra may not be entirely correct. To some people, their choice of operating system is akin to religion.

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One way to tell a country’s worth. What they queue for:-

Zimbabwe. Bread.
Venezuela. Milk.
United Kingdom. Nintendo Wii

(I’m taking my chances with a letter to Santa)

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I knew it was under Beta, so did some googling and hey presto! the best open source FTP client is available for Linux with just a hop, skip and a sudo apt-get away:-
sudo apt-get install filezilla

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24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot

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I needed to set up a machine with 3 simple purposes:-

Browse the net
Flash
Play video (DIVX)

Linux can do all of these, so Linux it was. I’d normally have used Ubuntu, but it’s an old Dell 2500 machine, and I wanted something light that would do all those things better.
I tried Puppy Linux, which has a good […]

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From the BBC
Around 15,000 Standard Life customers could be at risk of fraud after their personal details were lost by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The data was on a CD sent from the Revenue office in Newcastle to the company’s headquarters in Edinburgh.
How quaint. Sending data around on CDs. Never heard of Secure FTP?
The […]

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Building Web Services using the SOAP protocol in asp.net is relatively easy. It’s out of the box.  For REST, I stumbled across a library.

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