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Happy New Year!

2 Jan 2004
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Finally it’s 2004. Hope you all had a nice Christmas, I did. Got a digital camera as one of my pressies, so will be taking quite a few pictures with it I hope (but whether or not they end up on this site is another matter).
Two days ago, it snowed here!! Admittedly, [...]

What It's About: Hey, I'm Chris. I'm an English Theoretical Physics student, but most of this site is to do with web development topics. I like messing about with all sorts of programming languages, and generally hacking things together.
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