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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Memorial to a day in 1999

Walking along the seafront in Plymouth last night, I was delighted to see, set in the footway, a memorial to the day that we completed the purchase of our home in Melksham. At that time, "404" was uninhabitable - the only water coming in through a lead pipe to a tap; which wasn't over a drain, no loos, collapsing floors and ceilings. Clearly a "fixer upper" as the term goes. But - big project though it was, I hadn't thought that they would put a memorial to us in Plymouth.


Looking a little further at the memorial, I realised that it was to something altogether larger than our exploits; 11th August 1999 was the date of the total eclipse. We were actually stood at the house that we had *just* completed the purchase of ... and it went very dark. The crows in the nearby rookery were flying around, perplexed at what appeared to be the early end of the day - an altogether eerie experience.

(written 2010-10-06, updated 2010-10-08)

 
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