About The Webmaster
This site is owned, designed, and regularly broken by one person - me. It was created in order to provide a workbench from which I could learn more about PHP, CSS, HTML and mySQL databases. As absurd as this sounds, I tend to find coding to be very relaxing... except when something goes fundamentally wrong, of course. Unfortunately, I tend to be bad at putting appropriate comments in the code, but never mind. The gallery code on my site is written entirely by hand, rather than using off-the-shelf systems such as Gallery2 or Coppermine as I wanted the opportunity to write a gallery system entirely from the ground up. Despite the code only existing for a week, as of the writing of this page, it has allowed me to use several new methods which I had never seen before, so I guess my plan is working!
For those who don't know, I'm a 22 year-old student from Hartlepool in the North East of England studying at the University of Leeds and now entering my Final Year on BA Computing and Linguistics. I'm webmaster for the Joint Hons Arts and Social Sciences Society, and representative to the Societies Exec for Departmental Societies. I also will also hopefully be sitting on the Staff-Student Committee for the Linguistics Department representing Joint Honours students in Final Year.
When I'm not buried in coursework, which I regularly pretend to be working on, I'm an avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, covering Terry Pratchett's books, both Discworld and otherwise, HG Wells (who I have gradually got around to reading), Doctor Who, Star Trek, Stargate, and similar. I've always enjoyed time travel stories most of all, hence HG Wells' The Time Machine, Doctor Who and (of course) Back To The Future.
I suppose it was these programmes and the many, many movies which I enjoy that led to my love of the movie soundtrack and ultimately classical music. My favourite pieces are Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (amusing in its absurdity), Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Strauss' Blue Danube, Boellmann's Suite Gothique, Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony and Carnival Of The Animals, Rossini's William Tell Overture (the whole thing, not just the famous bit), and a few others thrown in there.
Last Updated: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 by Craig Hopkins
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