Andy's Profile
I'm Andy, and this is my Wiki.
If you have comments, email me. The picture to the left is a few years old, but it's my favourite so I'm sticking with it for now.
I'm currently working as a systems admin for a local ISP, where I administer a couple of Debian based clusters providing web, mail and database hosting services to local businesses.
Debian is great, it's the only Linux I'm ever going to need.
I'm studying Physics part time and use this site to organise informal notes. Please note that these are probably full of errors and should not be taken too seriously.
I have other interests too, but I don't have as much time as I would like to write about travel, motor cycling and literature.
About Derbyshire
I live in England, in Derbyshire in the East Midlands. That's in the middle of the country, about as far from the sea in any direction as you could be. I enjoy walking with my camera, and here's a selection of my favourite photos from around the area. Enjoy!
About My Website
I think I made my first home page some time around 1995. It was pretty basic but it had lots of animated gifs and made extensive use of the <blink> tag so I was happy.
Since then the site's gone through five distinct revisions including the one your looking at now, and I think it's got a little better with each.
Here's a screen-shot of my very first site. Notice the rotating globe in the header, and the spinning email link. They don't make them like that any more, huh?
Here's the next revision. I had found the <frameset> tag, but black backgrounds were still all the rage at this point:
By the third revision I was working as a web developer and head learnt to construct cmplex themes using tables:
And by the fourth revision I had learnt not to construct complex themes using tables, but to instead relax in the zen like simplicity of XHTML and CSS:
In this fifth revision my focus has really shifted towards content management. I needed something which would allow me to publish, quickly, easily and regularly:
DokuWiki's just the trick.
Article from Andy's Wiki (http://www.besy.co.uk/)
