I live in Norfolk, UK, with my wife and children (2 teenage girls full of fun and hormones - not necessarily in that order). I enjoy a number of pastimes including Hot-Air Ballooning and Scuba Diving when time and weather permit. At other times I can be found hunched over a laptop or the family PC using various software packages, surfing the net or helping with homework!
We also had an interesting time turning a plot of land into a house and home during the past few years, along with some basic plans, a big pile of bricks and a local building firm. Now we know what to do, it will definitely be easier the second time around (if we had a severe masochistic streak, that is). One day I might get round to putting a guide together for the budding self build fanatics out there.
This website came about after I decided to get to grips with the basics of HTML and has gradually grown from a single page to the collection you see today. Work on this site tends to go in short bursts and the break at Christmas 1999 gave me enough spare time to do a fairly major rework. I do not have any special web authoring software and tend to write using notepad or Word and keep an eye on the results with frequent use of the refresh button on IE 5 at the present time. We do use WYSIWYG web software for our website at work. It can be helpful to manage large projects but my own style keeps my brain more active!
Many companies use CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) machine tools in the UK. The CNC machine tool world uses many types of computers to create, edit and store programs for use with machine controllers. Our industry has grown up since the early days of MSDOS PCs and has seen rapid development as the changes to the capability and power of computers as speed is increased and cost continually falls for these machines. Today's engineer is as at home with the PC as he (or she) is with the micrometer or vernier caliper and has a good understanding of many types of applications software.
Feedback on these pages is always welcome. Please send your comments to me at graham@divefan.co.uk
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