Introduction
For my sins I teach computing including website design. For many years I had a thrown together site on yahoo geocities that did the job but was in no way a showcase of design. Most of the students that enter my classes know very little about website writing beyond using some graphical wizard to throw it all together. There is nothing wrong with that; indeed most of my early pages were generated in just such as way. They worked but the code makes me shudder now, not least the amount of repetition to get a job done
I have gradually improved in code use but my design and colour skills are never going to win prizes. I intend to use this site to try out ideas on a live site and to host some work that might be of interest to at least one other person. I look at code that I have written even recently and am shocked by the mess; hardly knowing where to start to sort it all out. If I were not teaching this stuff then I probably would not worry about it. I have not attempted to root out every piece of bad code in the older pages (that is the past) but I hope that I have removed some of the worst howlers
Boardgames
I used to play a lot of boardgames when I ran a Post Office in North Wales. The customers came in spurts. Pension days were Monday and Thursday mornings with a smaller set on Tuesday. Generally when your pension is payable you do not hang about to collect it in cash. So when the payment rush was over the Post Office could get real quiet. In Summer one could work on the exterior and garden. Summer does not last long in Wales so I had some time on my hands between customers. Some of this was spend learning languages (Welsh of course but moving onto Spanish; there is a Patagonian connection) and reading (not in English that was too easy) plus some light relief in playing and writing about boardgames. The original files were written on an Atari ST. These moved to a PC (2 MB RAM in those days) and finally to the web. I have posted the more recent (but still pretty old) versions of those files up here in boardgames.