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Hello World!Welcome to my web (2.0) site! I'm Andy Wardley. Here you can find information about me, the things I've done, the software I've written, the web sites I've built, the kites I've designed and flown, the boards I've ridden, and all the other useless information that you would expect to find on someone's personal web site. A page all about me, who I am, what I do, where I've been and where I'm going. Read about the famous people I've shared bedrooms with, the things that have fallen on my head, and why skateboarding is so good for solving problems. I've been using and programming computers for 20-something years now. My work is based around web design and development. I run my own consultancy business specialising in building template-driven web sites like this one. I'm the author of the Template Toolkit, an Open Source software package written specifically for this purpose. It has become the de-facto templating solution of choice for Perl programmers and is used to build countless web sites from the very small to the very large. I've written a book on the subject and have given a number of talks at the Perl Conference and London.pm user group meetings. I'm a freestyle kite flying fanatic. Over the last ten or so years I've flown at numerous kite competitions, festivals and other events around the World. I have designed a number of kites with Tim Benson of Benson Kites, including the Gemini, Airbow and Deep Space. I've also devised a number of freestyle competition formats. I've appeared in a number of Kite Movies including my home-produced Stoked in the Park series available for download, and the new Trick or Treat DVD from Soul Deep Films, available from all good kite shops. There is also a section dealing with bridle design and an archive of some of my rec.kites posts or those of other people that I found amusing or interesting Board riding is another passion of mine. In addition to the usual skateboarding and snowboarding, I'm also into downhill mountain boarding and kite boarding. I've dabbled in various different kinds of computer graphics over the years including ray tracing, 3d modelling and generatihg fractal images. Most of what I do these days is creating logos, icons and images for web sites using Illustrator, Photoshop and the Gimp. This section contains some examples of my work. This section contains all the random bits that don't fit anywhere else. There's the Goldbach Weave, a graphical representation of Goldbach's Conjecture (a famous problem from the branch of mathematics known as number theory), my Commmercial Email spam honeypot (yes I've had messages sent to it - 43 at the last count - but no I've never collected any money), some family pictures, and so on. |
