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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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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))
2999 - looking back

This is the first of a series of articles that reviews where Well House Consultants has been - and where we're going - after 6 years of blogging and some 3000 articles. - "towards the next 3000"




I'm headed towards article number 3000 - this is blog article 2999. I started writing back in the summer of 2004, over two thousand two hundred days ago, and I didn't expect that I would be writing almost every day, year in, and year out.

So much has changed in six years. I've progressed from being "just" a disinterested member of the local community who trusted that government and authority always knew what people wanted and did their best to provide it to someone with a far more active role in cases where the powers that be didn't / don't know what people want(ed), or know perfectly well but have other priorities, sometimes less laudable ones. As a company, we've moved from being just a training provider to being a training provider with a wider portfolio, and to a company that provides hotel accommodation with the courses and indeed for other visitors to Melksham. And our web site has grown by leaps and bounds, with our logs increasing 20-fold in 5 years, with many of our niche resources downloaded hundreds of times a day. And that's not counting some of the spin offs with hundreds of members, thousands of threads, and tens of thousands of messages.

I look back at achievements I feel proud of, good friends and acquaintances made and retained, places I have visited and enjoyed, and indeed work - and writing - that I have enjoyed doing too. Of course, there have been downs as well as ups, but the ups have outweighed the downs and will be the abiding memory.

Article 3000 should not look back - so this is article 2999. Article 3000 will look forward. But - looking back and forward - it couldn't have been done and wouldn't have been done - and nor would all the personal stuff that I don't blog about be done, or fun, without Lisa ... who through her own modesty gets far too few mentions here. Lisa - THANK YOU - for everything. Love you ;-)





Links to other articles in the series
[link] A brief look back
[link] Looking forward in overview - the next 3000
[link] How will course presentation change in coming years?
[link] Course subjects - what does the future hold?
[link] Well House Manor - the next six years
[link] Personal stuff - back and forward six years.


(written 2010-10-15, updated 2010-11-08)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
G210 - Well House Consultants - History
  [38] An update for old friends - (2004-09-03)
  [164] Well House Consultants - review of 2004 - (2004-12-31)
  [225] 10 years and counting - (2005-02-23)
  [2968] Well House Consultants - a potted history - (2010-09-23)
  [3149] Looking back at www.wellho.net - (2011-01-28)
  [3510] The skull above the door in Melksham Town Hall - (2011-11-06)
  [3615] Historic documents for Wiltshire - (2012-02-16)
  [3628] Historic Drawings from near Melksham - (2012-02-28)


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