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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:43:00 Things fall apart, the Centrino cannot hold Catastrophe in the forest. My laptop's frites. Well, almost. I can run it in emergency mode, with Windows operating at the ve...
Thu, 22 May 2008 11:18:00 Chapeau! After many years of visiting France, and living here for two years, probably the most important advice I'd offer to prospecti...
Sun, 18 May 2008 08:41:00 Online again Sitting in La France Cafe, downtown F'bleau, marvelling at the wonders of WIFI. On the other hand, it's costing several Euros...
Wed, 14 May 2008 19:23:00 Lost in France Occasional will be even more occasional for a while. I'm off to sling my hammock between a couple of trees in a French forest...
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:10:00 Lost and found Here's a little story with a happy ending, for a change. I lost my car keys yesterday. Well, to be accurate, it wasn't me who...

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:43:00
Things fall apart, the Centrino cannot hold
Catastrophe in the forest. My laptop's frites. Well, almost. I can run it in emergency mode, with Windows operating at the ve...

Thu, 22 May 2008 11:18:00
Chapeau!
After many years of visiting France, and living here for two years, probably the most important advice I'd offer to prospecti...

Sun, 18 May 2008 08:41:00
Online again
Sitting in La France Cafe, downtown F'bleau, marvelling at the wonders of WIFI. On the other hand, it's costing several Euros...

Wed, 14 May 2008 19:23:00
Lost in France
Occasional will be even more occasional for a while. I'm off to sling my hammock between a couple of trees in a French forest...

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:10:00
Lost and found
Here's a little story with a happy ending, for a change. I lost my car keys yesterday. Well, to be accurate, it wasn't me who...

Liverpool Museums' page on the Peter Pan statue, Sefton Park, Liverpool

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)

Colour:

Kind of Blue

Quote:

"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum". "Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he? Is he?" (The Hitchmaker's Guide To The Galaxy)

Campaigns:

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).

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