This site was started on 28th March 2007.  It’s still very much under construction, but I’m adding more content all the time...

I’m a software engineer, and in my spare time I enjoy creating my own software.  My most well-known project is my Guitar Chord Explorer, which has had over 120,000 visitors since November 2003.

Other projects that you can use for free include:

• Marble Challenge  –  A game
• ASCIIroids  –  Another game
• Particle System Designer  –  A virtual machine for Second Life
• Gravity Bubbles  –  A visual toy
• Some amusing name generators

My other projects include:

• FractalNet  –  A distributed fractal renderer
• EcoSim  –  An ecosystem simulator
• Cosmic Dust  –  A particle animation system
• Imagencrypter  –  A visual cryptography program
• Foxy Detector  –  A motion-detection program
• MacDiff  –  A file-comparison program
• Matrix Attack  –  A partially-created game

I’m also writing a guide to the Mac OS X Terminal.




I’ve been playing the piano since school, and the acoustic guitar since 2002.  I recorded my first amateur album, The Eternal Realm, in 2005, and I participated in the professional recording of two albums with The Newsong Group (acoustic guitar and tenor vocals) in 2007 and 2008.  I’ve composed some songs in GarageBand, and I’m also (slowly) learning to play the tenor saxophone.




I’ve created Conway’s Game of Life: An Illustrated Guide, and I’m currently developing various TV episode guides.  You can view some photos and videos of “Foxy”, a friendly fox who visits our back garden every day with her cubs   I’m also building a collection of links to useful or interesting webpages.



All the videos on my website are hosted for free by Vimeo, a very cool video-sharing website, supporting much better quality videos than YouTube.  You can find a complete gallery of my videos here, or you can browse my video albums here.

Below is a list of links to pages with videos on my website:

• Software
  • Particle System Designer  –  1 video
  • FractalNet  –  6 videos
  • EcoSim  –  1 video
  • Cosmic Dust  –  10 videos
  • Imagencrypter  –  1 video
  • Matrix Attack  –  1 video
• Music
  • Piano  –  1 video
  • GarageBand songs  –  1 video
• Other
  • Foxy  –  3 videos

I’ve been a member of Wikipedia since November 2006.  I’ve started several articles, and made over 400 edits so far.  I’ve made major contributions to the Journey into Space article, since I’m a big fan of this 1950s radio show.  For more info, visit my user page.  Recently, I’ve also joined Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki), and begun making various minor corrections to articles there (visit my user page for more info).