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ABOUT ME:

I am "over 21" years old, married with three children - 2 boys one girl. I am a Technology Lecturer at a Further Education College in West Lancashire, England.

The term, 'Technology Lecturer' is a loose job description which involves the teaching of Electronics, Mathematics, Computer Skills, Programming and various Engineering based subjects.

I have worked in my current position for five years now, having previously been involved in a varied cross section of jobs in the past 20 years. I have been mostly self-employed and have worked in the motor trade, a hospital, in house building, and in heavy plant and machinery, including excavator driving.

I have been teaching Visual Basic, levels 1 and 2 now for three years and am currently working on City & Guilds Level 3. I am interested in VB links with MSAccess and SQL and I have written several applications in this field. C and C++ are also on my agenda. It's just a question of finding time to fit everything in.

I also teach the AutoCAD suite of programs, up to and including 3D, AEC Built Environment, Customisation and AutoLisp programming. I would like contacts with others doing the same.

As far as the Internet is concerned, I am mainly interested in the programming side. I am currently studying JavaScript and, to a lesser degree, Java. I have been interested most aspects of programming for some time. I would be keen to hear from anyone who has any interesting bits of code in VB or JavaScript that they would like to share. I am also quite interested in 'animated gifs' or animation of any kind for use on the Net. Have you any to donate or to swap?

Other hobbies and interests include:

Keeping tropical fish
Fishing
Photography
Cycling
Collecting Great Britain Stamps and First Day Covers. I've also recently started to collect the Great Britain Numismatic First Day Covers.
Walking with the dog.
Researching local history and events.
Travel and having a great time, especially in Dublin, France and Amsterdam.

I have always harboured three main ambitions:

To do a parachute jump
To fly in a helicopter
To fly in a hot-air balloon

So far I have achieved the first two. If you have any information about hot-air balloon trips (not expensive) in the local area - West Lancashire - please let me know by e-mail.

I am always on the look-out for new work, especially in the fields of programming or web publishing; e-mail me if you have any offers.

email to emgeedee@globalnet.co.uk