All my work is done, or was done, on an iMac. At home I have a 24″ Core 2 Duo that I got what must be 3 years ago. I’ve only upgraded the RAM to max out at 4 GB and replaced the hard drive with a 1 TB for all my media. At work [...]

I’m entirely self taught. Yes, I did go to uni and study computing, learn a bit of C++ and other stuff, but the course was more of an ‘overview of computing’ rather than really getting into nitty gritty detail. I certainly didn’t do much web development. So self taught is a fairly accurate description. And [...]

I’ve been struggling lately with self employment (SE) and employment. Even though my job is contracted for 4 days a week, the nature of the Internet means there’s never any real downtime, especially at a small company punching above it’s weight. One day a week SE isn’t enough to get any meaningful and dedicated work [...]

I work on a website that gets in excess of 40,000 and well over 250,000 page views a day. That’s a pretty big audience and it seems to be growing on a monthly basis. In some ways it’s nice. Everything I do has a guaranteed audience. But with this audience comes guaranteed feedback – instantly. [...]

I’m still building this as you can see. But I’ll be blogging here about what I get up to in my working life as I think come across enough problems and have enough observations to warrant my views being expressed. And if no one reads it doesn’t matter – the primary purpose of this blog [...]