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MoD 'to pay for Trident renewal'

The chancellor says the MoD, not the Treasury, will have to pay the 20bn cost of renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent, putting further pressure on the defence budget. more.

Strikes and ash extend BA losses

BA reveals a steep quarterly loss after being hit by cabin crew strikes and disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud. more.

Welfare reform options outlined

Ministers are to set out options for reforming the benefits system and moving people from welfare into work. more.

Photographs

Browse the gallery of photos; copy with attribution (high-res available if you need). Recent sets:

Dundee Wharf London December 2009 28/Dec/09
Kerak 23/Apr/09
Wadi Rum 23/Apr/09
Petra 23/Apr/09
Dead Sea Resort 23/Apr/09
Various 23/Apr/09
NYC-Nov2005 4/Jul/08
Hampton Court 8/Jun/08

See the private gallery (password required).

Calendar

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Code projects

I contribute to Debian and CPAN; see Programs for more.

MySQL and BLOBs

Microsites

Perth — 1995: Small site on Perth, Western Australia
Wedding — 2005: Our wedding web site.
UWA Virtual Tour — 1995: A nethack-esq tour around UWA
Ocean Wharf — 2006: Community portal for Ocean Wharf, London E14

Work and career

Vibrant Media: Global Network Operations Manager, London
Fotango / Canon: Manager/Lead Sys Admin, London
Hartley Poynton/JDV: Sys Admin, Perth
UWA: Sys Admin, Perth

CV for roles in Perth, Australia.

My Links

[Home] 1997/

1997: Lost in Mars Mania

NASA put a probe on Mars, the red planet. The world went crazy. Well, the on-line world did. There were live updates on-line. VRML virtual reality models of the martian surface. Quicktime VR panaramas. Soil analisys data. It was all overwhelming. Amongst all this, I turned 21.

Dad purchased a nice (for then) DC40 Digital Camera. On-line images in an instant were mine.

Eskimo Joe played at the End of Semester Bash at UWA.

That spooky time: Halloween at Peter N Lewis' house
Craig celebrated his bike accident survival anniversary with a theme party: the Accident Party. We had such a good time. 3am and we blew a tyre on the wheelchair double-dinking up the street at speed
Another friend, Andrew Nilsen, organised NetDay 97 at Winthrop Primary School. I got a few pictures
UniSFA had some club photographs that I took on August 29^th
AACA Campus Bands Competion 97: Grant and Stuart, two school friends, entered in a comedy band Bumparcar Turbo
My mother showed me a poem: Death of an Innocent
I created a list of Computer Stores in Australia that were on-line so I could quickly price components in my money
One of my firends, Craig Richmond, organiased a Car Rally
My 21^st birthday party. Wembley Golf Course, May 31^st
Pelican, Dad's company, got an ISP
Terracon jingles
Eastpac
A seleection of UWA Guild Logos