Tim Almond

I’m looking for a cottage to rent on the Isle of Wight, somewhere that accepts small, well behaved dogs.
Any recommendations?

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Good to see that the Video Appeals Committee has overturned the censorship of Manhunt 2.
Even better would be to just scrap the BBFC. They are a blight on freedom and creativity. You want to sell a DVD, something at the same level of Care Bears or Teletubbies? You have to pay them a fee of […]

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I’m glad to see that BA have exclusive use of Terminal 5. It means that I know how to avoid getting fingerprinted - I won’t fly with BA.

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11:28 Yesterday
The BBC has issued a fix to stop people downloading programmes from the iPlayer website that were intended for streaming on an iPhone or iPod only.
21:16 Yesterday
I am happy to announce that I’ve defeated them once again!
Reading his comments, it sounds like the BBC got their web server to detect some quirks of the […]

Tags: Technology, bbc by admin
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In a historic day for environmental causes, the Daily Mail has won a victory in their Banish the Bags campaign, with the chancellor promising action.
No longer need people suffer the guilt of the wasting valuable resources on carrier bags.  As they fill their car with food wrapped in cellophane that was shipped half way across […]

Tags: Politics, Junk Science by timalmond
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Something I should add from an earlier post is about using the latest version of OSX, Leopard.
This isn’t a criticism of Leopard in any way, but I have noticed that some of the open source tools aren’t playing too nice with it. Installing the Python/MySQL library meant editing some source code using some tips on […]

Tags: Software Development, Django, Apple by admin
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I went to buy a domain name today from a company. The total price was about £5 less than my Paypal balance, but Paypal are saying I need to put a credit card number in.
Can anyone explain why?

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From The Daily Telegraph
However, the doyenne of cooks was unrepentant, saying she had fully expected a backlash to her new show Delia, which promises to help cut corners, save time and take the fear out of entering a kitchen.
I watched the show, and I’m not sure how much she “cut corners”. Cutting corners means doing […]

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I remember when I first learnt object-orientated programming, a friend said that I’d probably have had harder job than many young programmers because I had, to quote Yoda “unlearn what I had learnt”. I had to try and get my head away from following the procedural route and embrace classes.
In some ways, I think that […]

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From The Times:
Alistair Darling is planning a series of green taxes designed to force consumers to become more environmentally friendly. The centrepiece of the chancellor’s first budget is expected to be a levy on new cars, which could put £2,000 on the price of the largest “gas guzzlers”.
However, it will hit also […]

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