Tim's tech blog
Welcome! This is my tech blog, my personal feed, and generally home to some of my private ideas, thoughts, rants, etc...
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Portal 2 -- the game is launched! (20 April 2011)
The original Portal was a magnificent work of genius and a surprising innovation. With it, Valve invented a completely new type of game -- a first-person shooter engine with a "portal" mechanic that nobody has ever tried before ...
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Gold Greatest Hits -- new website launching! (15 April 2011)
The leading "greatest hits" radio station, Gold, is launching a chart of people's favourite songs and pop music hits of all time -- it's happening next week, on Good Friday. (I built the chart web app and colleagues did the desig ...
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Classic FM Hall of Fame 2011 -- new website launching! (15 April 2011)
The world's best classical music radio station will be launching this year's chart next week -- on Good Friday! (I built the chart web app and colleagues did the design.) The definitive Hall of Fame for classical music: halloffame2011.c ...
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UK Radio Player launching online on 31 March! (04 March 2011)
It's official! We've been working on it, and today we're officially allowed to tell you about it. Radio Player -- the UK's official cross-industry online media player web app, is launching at the end of this month! It ...
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The British government must urgently invest in broadband internet infrastructure (10 February 2011)
It is essential that the UK's internet infrastructure is improved and expanded, within and beyond urban areas, and a nation-wide project must commence without further delay. This is now a race against time. With renewed urgency, serious ac ...
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