Originally designed on an Apple Powerbook G4 Titanium, with occasion usage of a Strawberry iMac and in extreme circumstances, a Dell Inspiron 6000. Later designs on a MacBook Pro.

The mbp is my 8th computer, I’ve owned:

• Amstrad PPC640 running MS-DOS 3
• IBM PS/2 running MS-DOS 5/6/Windows 3
• Mac LC running OS 6
• Performa 6200 running OS 7
• Graphite iMac DV/SE running OS 9
• Powerbook G4 running OS 9.2.2 (actually OS X running in Classics mode)
• Dell Inspiron 6000 running Windows XP
• MacBook Pro running 10.4

I used to have a rather basic Epson Perfection 1660 which I use for scanning. Currently I have an Epson Stylus CX6900F — printer, scanner, copier and fax.

Most of the site is powered by Movable Type, in the form of separate weblogs per section. I used a variety of plug-ins, though this is kept to a minimum.

The exception is the gallery, which is powered by Simpleviewer and flickrviewer. The tumblelog is hosted at tumblr.

Other coding is done in Dreamweaver.

Images and photos are processed using Photoshop. Animated gifs are produced in ImageReady. The favicon was produced in Photoshop and fixed in GraphicConverter.

This site hosted at icdsoft.

I believe web standards is a damned.good.thing, like any best practices. I have enjoyed the process of learning to format using css, use php scripts and more.

I aim to have all pages validated to xhtml 1.0 transitional and css standards. To date, this exercise has been mostly successful. I’m a firm believer of the 80/20 rule so I’m not going to kill myself to get every page to xhtml strict. Yet.

The site should look fine on modern browsers, for older browsers (4.x and below) that has only iffy support for css, it will not look at its best. I have tested on the following browsers and the site looks pretty much as I intended.

• Firefox — Mac & PC
• IE6 — PC
• IE7 — PC
• Opera 8 — Mac
• Opera 9 — Mac
• Safari — Mac

Aside from calendars on the weblog pages and the out-of-the-box Movable Type pages, no tables are used. Boxes and table-like elements are done using float in css. There are no frames on this website.

All pages are in php, to take advantage of scripting abilities, in particular the php include function which allows me to build pages the way I like them, it’s like playing with lego.

At the time of the September 2003 reset the structure of site was designed using the most basic, but most effective, method — pencil and paper. That sketch has been preserved for posterity. I didn’t draw a new one for the September 2007 reset.

Font is easy-on-the-eye verdana. This should be common enough to be recognized by most browsers, failing that it’s good ol’ arial, helvetica, geneva and finally general sans serif fonts.

I’m not a photographer, not even a competent amateur one, I know nothing about equipment or technique. Photos are taken on a Canon EOS650 (the original autofocus camera!), Canon EOS300, Canon ixus and Canon EOS350D. My more recent photos are on flickr.

Food & drink provided by home. Music by iTunes.

The website has kinda taken over my spare time and is eroding into my work time. That it’s already encroached into relationship time is a sad but accepted fact by the parties concerned. That I’m being so blasé is evidence enough.

People who I appreciate for being understanding about my hobby / obsession / distraction, and offering so much encouragement — they know who they are.