About

I'm a 6 foot tall quasi-Lancastrian, and learnt HTML while designing a French study page for my dad. That page was designed partly using FrontPage editor (bleurgh...), but since then I've designed sites from scratch, using only a text editor. Designing sites in this way allows me to keep a check on how cluttered the source code becomes. For techy people, this is the first website I've designed without relying on tables for the main layout. You might like to see the other sites I've designed in the web design section of this site.

When I'm not designing websites (I really don't spend all my time behind a computer), I'm studying for a PhD in "Operators and Special Functions in Random Matrix Theory" at Lancaster University.

I also play the piano and violin to a fairly good standard (at least enough to enjoy myself!), and try to get out birdwatching regularly, in my local area.

I usually have a book or two on the go: at the moment I'm re-reading Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood, and being shocked by Lolita (which I should emphasise came free with the Independent one day...).