I am a software engineer by profession, and a member of the IEE (or whatever else it calls itself now). I am currently employed as a researcher into machine interpretation of line drawings. See my research web site for more about that. I am also interested in renewable energy.
Ten years ago, I spent a year doing an MSc in Energy at Cardiff University. I now have a preliminary HTML version of my MSc dissertation. It is on computer modelling of the use of solar thermal energy with seasonal storage in district heating systems. It needs tidying up (particularly the equations), and some of the appendices are incomplete, but most of the text and diagrams are OK.
My submission to the UK Energy Policy Review. I wrote it in 2001, so don't say I didn't warn you.
My submission to the Government consultation document The Future of Nuclear Power.
I'm also a member of the Green Party. In May 2003, I was head of the party list for the South Wales East electoral region to the National Assembly. You can see a picture of me with the other head-of-list candidates taken during the course of the campaign. In 2005, I stood in the Newport West constituency at the General Election. I have also contested three Newport council by-elections.
Other links follow in due course.
On how spending two years in Japan changed my beliefs
Proofs of the Existence and Non-Existence of Deities
Blog: The Ongoing Saga of the Spanish Combi Boiler
Music, particularly Schubert, Sibelius and 20th-century symphonic music in general.
Chess. I scored 5/11 in the 2006 British Chess Championship. In 2008 I played in the 5th South Wales International Chess Tournament: you can see a photograph of me collecting the prize for least awful Welsh player. This year (2009) I played in the XLIII Torneo de Ajedrez "Villa de Mislata" and won the under-2300 grading prize.
I now play for Circulo Mercantil de Castellon in the Comunidad Valenciana chess league.
While I was living in Japan, I took rather a lot of photos in and around the Tokyo area.
I also took photos of other parts of Japan while on my holidays.
I also took a few photos of some European cities while travelling around attending conferences.
And here are three more collections of photos which originally appeared in Yahoo! photo albums (before they withdrew the service).
In 2006, I moved to Castellon de la Plana in Spain, where I bought a new camera. It is a Fujifilm A500. I don't like it as much as my previous camera, also made by Fujifilm but a model they don't make any more. The buttons are small and fiddly, making it difficult to operate.
Yahoo frequently refuses to accept messages sent by users of UK2.NET. As far as I can ascertain, this is a matter of policy, not a bug.
My personal e-mail account is with UK2.NET, and Yahoo's stupid action (one of many) has displeased me sufficiently that I intend to retaliate.
If your e-mail account is with Yahoo, be warned that I refuse to accept messages sent from Yahoo accounts. Any messages I receive from Yahoo e-mail addresses will be deleted unread.
I gather that they have now closed geocities.
I had some very old web sites on Yahoo, but I did not maintain them. It was no great loss to anyone when Yahoo deleted them.
That does not mean that everything on geocities was equally unimportant. Deleting geocities was another stupid action.
UK2 have gone pear-shaped.
Until further notice, I can only be reached via my university e-mail address (as shown in the image below), not via my UK2 e-mail address.
The copyright status of all the photographs which I have taken and which can be found on this web site is this:
I took all of these photographs and I own the copyright to all of these photographs.
Anyone may use any of these photographs freely in any work the purpose of which is to advance human knowledge. That specifically includes, but is not restricted to, research work done in universities. The source should be acknowledged in an appropriate manner (by citation in an academic paper, by hyperlink in a web page, or whatever else seems appropriate).
