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This is the homepage of my website. As you will probably have noticed by the menus, my main interests are of a mechanical nature. I have been riding bikes now for about 34 years and have obviously had quite a few in that period. Fortunately, when I met my wife 31 years ago, I was using bikes so she is now used to it (well, that's what she says!).

I am employed as an Internet & Applications Developer with a trade organisation and therefore am around computers quite a bit (only about 10-12 hours a day!). I really enjoy messing around with websites and am constantly changing this one.

Update: 18/04/2009

This morning I re-wrote the gallery scripts to do their paging via Ajax. This may not mean a lot to most people but to those in the know will appreciate that it is a step forward. Obviously this does require Javascript to be running on the browser but these days that is virtually guaranteed anyway.

Update: 26/03/2009

Yesterday (25/03/2009), I was whisked away for a suprise 50^th birthday treat. Click here for more info.

Update: 24/03/2009

Dawn and I have just returned from a 4 day trip to Paris to celebrate my 50^th birthday. Click here for more info.

Update: 14/02/2009

This site is currently being updated with a new delivery engine. The navigation system is now generated though a child/parent data structure which enables any page (and its corresponding sub-pages) to be moved to any location in the site simply by changing its parent guid. This has also enabled the restiction on navigation depth (it was 4 levels) to be removed as it can be infinite although currently it only goes down to 7 levels.

An added bonus to the above is that the script that builds the parent elements can be reversed to provide a breadcrumb trail if required and a site map can be generated easily as shown here.

This version is also strict XHTML 1.0.