Tim Almond

I’m starting to think about maybe splitting the blog up into a number of blogs, probably using subdomains to manage each, so one for each of the following:-

tech
politics
other stuff and nonsense

Is this a good idea?

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Bletchley Park in Trouble
But, despite an impressive contribution to the war effort, the Bletchley Park site, now a museum, faces a bleak future unless it can secure funding to keep its doors open and its numerous exhibits from rotting away.
I had a look through the Bletchley Park accounts. It lost around £500K last year […]

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Lots of goodness here.

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via CBC
In an interview with BBC Radio, Lessing, 88, said she has been hounded by the media since capturing the prestigious prize last October and that has made writing a novel almost impossible.
“All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed,” she told the program Front Row. “I don’t have any energy anymore.”
I’m […]

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I had a Mac for a while. It didn’t really work for me, but I take the chacun a sont gout view of these things. If you like using a Mac and OSX, be my guest.
What I object to is some of the bull that’s written about Windows (or Linux).
There’s an article on ArsTechnica […]

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OGC unveils new logo
It cost £14,000 to create, but clearly no-one at the smart London design outfit that came up with the new logo for HM Treasury thought to turn it on its side.
Englishman’s Castle 5 days ago
Try rotating it 90 degrees as I have below…

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From The BBC
He plans to wind back the clock at his estate in the Highlands by repopulating the land with a raft of animals that have not been seen in Britain for hundreds of years - including brown bears, lynx and wolves.
Presumably there’s method in this madness.
He explained: “The main problem we have in Scotland […]

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This is a great return:-

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From the Daily Fail 
Guy Ritchie, 39, opted to dress as cartoon character Asterix - donning a shapeless white tunic, platinum blonde plaits and a Viking helmet with horns.
Sounds more like Obelix.

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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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