This web-site is primarily a note-book that I don't mind other folk reading
– its real purpose is to be a place: in which I
can record my thoughts and explorations of various topics; that I can access
from anywhere with a web browser and an internet connection. Parts of it may,
none the less, be of interest to others; I'll let you be the judge of that. The
major entry-points are:
I did my degree in mathematics,
specializing in theoretical physics; I still dabble in
both. My writings here use a notation designed for
plain text (via a cruder precursor) and the
mathematics is divided between an older area which is more
chaotic and a newer area in which I aim to be more
disciplined. The former contains more material; the latter is somewhat more
focussed on the needs of theoretical physics.
and book reviews, organized
chronologically, along with a (very
sporadic) diaryrecording what's
changing on this site. Similar thoughts sometimes end up
as project sketches, ranging from space travel and
software engineering to tools for theoretical physics.
I earn my living as a
computer programmer (see my curriculum vitae –
or, to North Americans, resumé – for
details) and am in favour of Free Software. When
I'm learning new web technologies, I add toys to this site as examples; and
sometimes I write essays about how I think the software industry might be
improved. Some of my experiments and experimental
ruminations are also available.
ramblings and witterings
Like many a vain fool with a website,
I have recorded some of my opinions
about politics, life in
general, mine in particular and the
mind, of which you can make what you will. As my opinions change, I might
even update these pages, but some of them are very old, so might be out of
date.
If I ever have material worthy of peer-reviewed publication,
I am committed to offering it
to open-access journals for publication.
I endeavour, on this web-site, to conform to
the world-wide web consortium's relevant
standards: consequently, it should work with all user agents (including the ones
described as web browsers) in so far as they support those standards. On
the other hand, particularly when I'm exploring new web technologies, I do use
some modern standards (e.g. SVG and XHTML) which are not as widely supported as
plain HTML; so you'll get most out of this site
with a modern standards-compliant
browser (such
as Vivaldi, FireFox or Chromium).
My adopted nick-name is four letters long: any other spelling lacks the
meanings (and synonyms) for which I chose it. Where used, I consider it to
properly be a replacement for the whole of my name, not only my first name;
combining it with my surname always strikes me as odd – why shorten my
first name by (at best) two letters when using my nine-letter surname ? If
you're going to be so formal as to use my surname, please use my full name,
Edward Welbourne, which I inherited from my grandfather – if you came here
looking for information about a historian, my
page about him will hopefully help.
I have had several abodes on the 'net: however, most of these may sensibly
be expected to have expired. So if you have any other e-mail address for me,
please revise to just eddy@chaos.org.uk. This is now my
definitive home
(and e-mail address)
on the InterNet.
and book reviews, organized
chronologically, along with a (very
sporadic) 
