About me
Scientist, explorer, writer, thinker, raconteur, collector of fine wines and paintings, accomplished musician...
anything was possible for a boy sitting by a statue. Alas, this was one of the few occasions when I was to be more than
an arm's length away from a computer keyboard.
Details of my subsequent career in IT, spanning continents and technologies, are in my CV, available from the
contact page.
A few of my favourite things:
Books:
Midnight's Children, Talking It Over,
Fontainebleau: escalades et randonnées
Films:
Betty Blue, Jules et Jim, Manon des Sources
Albums:
Born To Run (Springsteen),
Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Sandy Denny),
Clear Spot, Spotlight Kid (Beefheart),
The Well-Tempered Clavier (Bach, Barenboim)
Sportsperson:
Joe Montana, SF 49ers Quarterback
Smells:
The original Ambre Solaire (à la recherche du tans perdu)
Quote:
"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum".
"Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he? Is he?"
(The Hitchmaker's Guide To The Galaxy)
About this site
For the technically interested, this website was created with Visual Web Developer, part of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005,
using ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Basic, with a light sprinkling of AJAX. (AJAX is a cross-platform scripting and
XML technology, not to be confused with Ajax, the well-known household cleaning product, although both
are best sprinkled lightly).
For best results, scripting and session cookies should be enabled in your browser.
Note that some pages on this site have media content that requires version 1.0 or later of the
Microsoft Silverlight
browser plugin.