See my talk to AMSAT-UK Select AMSAT-UK '08 Lect 22 from the drop down list, click on the Select button, and click on the Play button on the central video screen.
Direct FLV download (94MB)

I have always been keen on technical things - starting with electronics and Amateur Radio, through all aspects of Personal Computers, to weather satellites and the environment - which I not only find very interesting but these interests have also provided me with a job!  Having recently involved in the forefront of mainstream PCs - which meant the Web, Windows servers and networking, deciding on the company's future strategy - I am now earning a living as an independent software developer and consultant.  If you want to say "thanks" for any of my software, here is my Amazon Wish List or you could send me an Amazon Gift Certificate for david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk

I still enjoy presenting papers, and managed to get a paid trip to the DECUS Europe conference in Dublin by presenting a paper on implementing Electronic Mail in my previous company.  More recently, we both attended the 2002 EUMETSAT conference which was also in Dublin, the 2004 meeting in Prague, the 2006 meeting in Helsinki, the 2008 Darmstadt meeting, and the 2009 Bath conference.  I have spoken at two Remote Imaging Group events, in Dover and Leicester, and at a Dutch Satellite Workgroup meeting in Utrecht.  In September 2010 I presented a paper on Weather Satellite Image processing (zipped download) at the 1st National Amateur Observers Symposium organised by the Royal Meteorological Society.  In February 2004, I was a specially invited speaker representing the UK at the EUMETSAT "MSG goes operational" event in Darmstadt, and I am a regular speaker at the GEO (Group for Earth Observation) Symposia in Leicester and the AMSAT UK meetings in Guildford.  I recently help organise the GEO visit to EUMETSAT Headquarters in Darmstadt, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended.  Other, more local, excursions have been with the Edinburgh Geological Society to various parts of Scotland.

I'm quite happy to be a hanger-on, sorry, accompanying person, when Cecilia attends James Joyce conferences, since they are a good crowd and computers do come into Joyce studies.  I skip her mid-winter Paleontology  conferences though - not quite the right time of year for the obligatory post-conference field trip, is it?

Und ich habe Deutsch gelernt, aber leider habe ich mehr vergessen!

How did we make these pages?

We still use Microsoft's FrontPage for Web page creation.  Computing-wise we've moved on from Z80 S100 systems (at least with a 16MB hard disk) through to his and hers Pentium systems running Windows XP, Vista and Windows-7 with 2-3GB memory.  With these computers I've written various programs which I am prepared to give away, sometimes with the source code so that others may learn from them.  I might ask you to pay for support, though!

Some of my photos