Bits and Pieces

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The Reason for it being here

This page is to contain any miscellaneous thing that I want to broadcast on the web for one reason or another. In some cases I might think its useful, in others amusing or it might just be a bit of personal data exchange between me and a 'net friend or three...

Much of it is really links to other pages with only minimal information. Expect it to change sporadically and fairly ecclectically!

Computing Stuff

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My computing interests are many and varied - its what I do for a living after all! Here is a page of miscellany including articles, links to nice sites, code ideas, anecdotes and my personal opinions, for whatever they are worth.

Books and Music

I like books. I buy a lot of them and read most of those. I like "nice" books - hard bound in leather with good paper. I also like interesting books - whether a good novel or a factual account or a technical 'HowTo' kind of book. I like most books produced by O'Reilly press!

I like several authors including John Steinbeck, Freddie Forsyth and Dorothy Dunnett. I used to read Leslie Charteris (the Saint), Ian Fleming (James Bond) and Louis L'Amour (westerns) and have fair collections of each but I haven't looked near any of them for ages.

Musically I major on acoustic stuff - light classic, chamber music, trad jazz, Celtic folk and old style country (pre Garth Brooks!)

I go to 2 or 3 concerts a year, mainly folk and play several instruments extremely badly - no patience I'm afraid...

Other stuff

And thats enough to be going on with