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I've just added Dr Who to my television timelines project. It only includes the major characters (basically the Doctors and his companions), and is accurate to within a year. I may add more people and more accuracy later, as the details are readily available from a multitude of sites.
I may also get more motivation after watching further episodes. The ABC are currently showing mid 1975, the start of Tom Baker's tenure. There are still a number of upcoming episodes that I was too young to see when I was growing up in England.
As part of the series on the Minchin name, I am collating place names containing "minchin", and trying to determine their origins.
William Minchin was the Principal Superintendent of Police and Treasurer of the Police Fund in the colony. He was granted 1,000 acres of land in the area named after him and now known as Minchinbury.
The name actually takes its meaning from an old word for "nuns" - William the Conqueror originally gave the town to the Abbaye aux Dames of Caen.
While you're considering the purchase of the latest piece of technology, and pondering whether it's worth every dollar being asked for, you might like to reflect on how far technology prices have fallen in only a few years. Using the magic of the Wayback Machine, you can view the websites of technology vendors from many years ago.
For example, the online shop I usually use, Simline Solutions, has been around for four years. We can see that in May 2000 they were selling a rather hideous Acer 15" LCD monitor for $2000. Nowadays they're $350 - in four years they'be been reduced to 17% of their original price.