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Welcome

Thanks for dropping by. This is just my little site to put up things which interest me. I do it for me so if you like it then that's great but you if you don't worry because the internet is a big place and i'm sure you'll find something that you'll like better.

I have four main interests: Travel, Photography, Music and Software.

You can see an overview of the whole site over at the Site Map page.

This site is always a work in progress so if you find something that's unfinished then come back later.

To get your started... Here are some Facts About Me.


Travel
Spurred on by a rally from London to Mongolia in 2009 i've very much got the travelling bug. The rally took me through twelve countries and in mid-2011 I got the idea it would be a nice goal to try and visit Fifty Countrys by the time I reach fifty years old. It feels as though it's a doable challenge but of course the more countries that you tick off then further afield you have travel and the more expensive it becomes.

Photography
I guess I first started to enjoy photography when I was around seventeen. I did a course at college and had a darkroom set up in my bedroom for developing the prints. It was all very hands on made my bedroom stink of chemicals. After than - with so many hobbies - it faded into the background until around 2003 when I got a proper camera and by proper I mean one that was relatively expensive and nicer than the one I had. I snapped away happily with it for years and years but eventually hungered after a proper digital SLR. The EOS 550D was the camera which best suited me within my price range and that's what I currently use for all my photos and I got my hands on one sometime in 2010.

Music
I love music but specifically the genre of Power Pop. I have around four-thousand albums which is probably too many but I like the idea of a tangible product with its nice artwork, etc. and i'm currently resisting the need to start buying digital.

Software
Though I write software for a living I do quite enjoy the process and like to play around with various idea. Currently i'm looking into predicting trends using data from Social Media site Twitter.


Matt