These pages are an attempt to shake off the bit-mould from the many software projects I have started, and mostly not finished over the years. Some of this stuff is very usable, some of it needs work.

I also hope to document some of the more interesting projects I've undertaken.

In additional to that it is an aide-mémoire to little bits of problem solving I frequently encounter day to day.

The Source code section provides downloadable source code to some of the software projects here. Where available binaries are also provided. A lot of projects I have coded over the years have been written in Borland Delphi, mainly because that is what I started using 20 years ago. 

From Tom Merritt's Chronology of Tech History

• On this day in 1886 - Josephine Garis Cochrane of Shelbyville, Illinois received the first US patent for a commercially successful dishwasher. Dishes fit in compartments in a wheel that turned inside a copper boiler. Her company eventually became KitchenAid.
• On this day in 1895 - The first commercial presentation of the famous Lumire Cinmatographe took place at the Salon Indien of the Grand Caf in Paris. Invited payees got to see ten films.
• On this day in 2005 - The European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint Undertaking launched GIOVE-A the first test-bed satellite for the Galileo geo-location system.