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Thanks for dropping by. I'm Matthew, I'm a software engineer, physicist student, amateur astronomer, daydreamer and optimist.
This is my website; its design was restricted to just text and CSS (though I admit a few images have sneaked in). Sticking to these two means different browser types (screen readers for instance), can easily view the pages but yet still have a nice design for those that can view the whole thing. It also scales very nicely which you can see if you zoom the pages in and out.
All of the things you'll find here are just things I find of interest, such as the planet Mars or the top 200 favourite books. It's also a place I use to test out new programming ideas, software or API's (accordingly some of the pages may not always appear their best, but regular broadcasting should return forth with!)
The web pages are all written with PHP and a little of MySQL magic thrown in too. I'm quite a fan of the open source movement and join in when I can. My own work is almost always released as open source.
My most recent coding adventure was with jQuery. It's a really neat javascript API. You should have seen it in action below as my latest blog entries updated. I've also been playing with Blackbird which you can see running on this page with this link, just press F2 when it's loaded. Check out my blog entry here to learn more about it.
I run two blogs, the first is a techie one, for stuff covering Technology, the Internet, Programming and Science (TIPS) and the second one is a personal one where I put stuff of a more general subject.
You can find out a bit more about me on my CV.
My current favourite thing in the whole world is: Star Trek. Yes, I'm a geek. :0)
(It used to be: "Spacetime", "Programming with Python", "Proton smashing super experiments"
and "Long nights and dark skies".)