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Started 2 weeks, 1 day ago (2009-12-14 14:59:00)
by philcooling
We're moving soon to Bletchley (Milton Keynes) and need to sort ADSL - currently we're on Virgin Media cable and they don't cover that area so this will be our first foray in to ADSL teritory. Anyway, we're thinking about O2 broadband - is this a good idea? Why O2? Well, they appear quite cheap (£12.23 for the basic subscription), they won the ISPA Awards in 2009 for Best ...
Started 2 weeks, 5 days ago (2009-12-10 11:00:00)
by Swife
We're thinking of going to Bletchley Park on our next trip to London. It sounds like something we'd really be interested in seeing. We kniow you take the train from Euston Station to get there. Does anyone know how often the trains run(from there and back) or where to find that information? Also,how long does the trip take? Thank you,I know someone will be able to help us.
Started 3 weeks, 2 days ago (2009-12-05 19:53:00)
by Ms_Derious
Hi Y'all. Following a bit of chatter on a new member's introduction thread, it looks like a number of us would be interesting in forming a meet up at Veggie World in Bletchley Buckinghamshire. Map The are a vegetarian Chinese restaurant, where the vast majority of foods are also suitable for vegans, and anything that isn't is really well labelled so you know to avoid it. The menu ...
Started 4 weeks ago (2009-11-30 18:13:00)
by Gavin.Hamilton
Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:58:50 +0000, Charles Ellson > wrote: > >> They probably heard "trains to Bletchley" and interpreted it in the >> usual "everything revolves around London" manner. > > And forgot that (unless the Santa trains were this weekend, but I > doubt it - it's too early) Bedford-Bletchley has no Sunday service, so > nothing (apart possibly from ...
Started 1 month ago (2009-11-26 21:50:00)
by Meglos
Hugh Davis explaining the "BOMBE". The bombe was an electromechanical device used by British cryptologists to help break German Enigma-machine-generated signals during World War II. The bombe was designed by Alan Turing, with an important refinement suggested by Gordon Welchman. I was at Bletchley Park today and watched a very similar talk to this. A great vid for a brief look at the first ...
Started 1 month, 1 week ago (2009-11-19 14:35:00)
by Bo Peep
Family History Fair - Sunday, 22nd. November, 2009. The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes 11.00a.m. to 5.00p.m. Entrance £4.00 Alas, Parish Chest and Brit-Gen will not be attending this event, but Karen and Jo of One Stop Genealogy will be there, as will several other societies and suppliers.
Started 1 week ago (2009-12-22 16:36:00)
by Slutty_Eddie
Sitwon , Neil Stephenson seems to make the case that WWII was won by Alan Turing and the code breakers at Bletchley Park. Alan Turning was a huge hero, but Winston Churchill's DURR DURR DURR following the war pretty much eliminated Alan Turning impact beyond some discrete mathematics and cryptography. The things he did during the war. He pretty much died penniless and with breasts.
Started 18 hours, 55 minutes ago (2009-12-28 22:27:00)
by Still_Togging_Along
As an example of the 'competence' of many US soldiers, in Vietnam, they used an anti-personell mine which could be traversed over safely in one direction, but triggered in the opposite. For some time, the US Army couldn't work out why their own men weree being blown up by these, until it was pointed out that in large letters on the device, it indicated 'which way was which'. It had'nt ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-12-21 11:31:00)
by grumpyof
Not sure how you stucture it but how about a trip to a Racecourse? There are some reviews on Maths trips on www.schooltripadvisor.com to Ascot and Huntingdon. A interesting site that offers Maths trips is Bletchley Park National Codes Centre.
Started 6 days, 12 hours ago (2009-12-23 04:55:00)
by aronia
Not an exhaustive list but do consider boycotting as many of these as you can. http://freebirdcumbria.blogspot.com/...-sponsors.h tml Common Purpose Sponsors 34 (N) Signal Regiment (Volunteers), Middlesbrough Age Concern, Milton Keynes Airport Business Centre, Plymouth Alan Edward Higgs Charity, Coventry Alliance & Leicester, Leicester Anguish's Educational Foundation, ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-12-20 19:26:54)
by Nick Terry
Wahrheitseeker wrote: The actual Einsatzgruppen reports were also radioed to the SSHA (SS main headquarters office) in Berlin. British intelligence, monitoring such transmissions and having broken the German codes, received the reports but did not make much use of them during the war. Why not? Surely such information, if as damning to Germany as one might assume, ...
Started 2 days, 1 hour ago (2009-12-27 16:04:00)
by Pegontheroad
I would certainly make Paris a longer trip. Doing a day trip there doesn't make any sense to me. I concur with suggestions about places like Bath, etc. I'd also like to suggest a day trip to Bletchley Park, where the WWII codebreakers worked. It's a fascinating place. A train goes there from Euston Station.
Started 1 day, 21 hours ago (2009-12-27 19:30:00)
by nikkit72
hi all, welcome all newbies, loving pics, Promised to take dd to the city centre tomorrow, not looking forward to all the people, but just found out its open at 9am so will go then and hopefully be home by lunch. Got some bits at asda today lots tigger and poooh bear stuff all half price. Musy stop spending, did ppick up alovely jumper from our little town bletchley in new look, a ...
Started 4 days, 6 hours ago (2009-12-25 11:07:00)
by johndrew
One day someone will be reproducing an ancient PC (as they did at Bletchley Park recently) and your collection will prove invaluable. Snag is that there is no way of telling exactly when that will be. A bit like collecting `antiques` for the future really.
