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I have always been keen on technical things - formerly electronics and Amateur
Radio, currently all aspects of Personal Computers - 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, and the 2008 Darmstadt meeting. I have spoken at two
Remote
Imaging Group events, in Dover and Leicester, and at a Dutch
Satellite Workgroup meeting in Utrecht. 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 are 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 Geology conferences though - not
quite the right time of year for the obligatory post-conference field trip, is it?
The last time I attended an Amateur Radio event was the Dutch Satellite Work
Group's meeting in Utrecht, where I have now spoken on a few occasions.
Und ich habe Deutsch gelernt, aber leider habe ich mehr
vergessen!
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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 her Pentium systems running Windows XP Pro & 2000 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!
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