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Julian Bream took this photo at the RSC meeting in Hackney
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On Red Nose Day (Friday March 13th), a few of us from Computing Services at Oxford University did a 8.8 mile run visiting all 44 colleges of the University. Use this link to see where we went.

Dominic Hargreaves recorded our run by taking photos of us at each of the 44 colleges. Here's a link to some other photos.

Thanks to people's generosity in sponsoring me, 205 pounds has been given to Comic Relief, including donations from six people who I don't know but who use this web page. One said: we always use your website, it's really useful. Another said: I use your site all the time I thought it would be a way of thanking you for all the time and effort you put into the site. That's so nice.

Thanks.


In March 2005, I moved from Durham (and Durham University) to work for Computing Services at the University of Oxford. For the first 16 months, I spent half of my time working for OSS Watch, but I now work full time for Computing Services.
Whilst at Durham, I wrote several papers about Java, PHP, XML, C#, .NET and Web Services. I also wrote a book about programming in Java: it's called Understanding Java.
In 2001, I got obsessed with running and ran 149 races in 3.5 years until I obtained a problem with my knee. In December 2007, I started running again, gradually increasing my training from 1.4M to 6.3M. I'm now racing again.
Even though I now live in Oxfordshire, I maintain a list of future races in North East England. This is actively used by people in that area.
My latest photos are from recent trips to both South Africa and Cuba and from a holiday walking the Kennet and Avon Canal.
In 2005, I did a walk I've called the D'Arcy Dalton Circular; in 2006, I walked The Oxfordshire Way; in 2007, I invented and walked The South Oxfordshire Way; and in 2008 I walked the Kennet and Avon Canal.
I still have my scrapbook from 1958 which contains 210 pressed wildflowers. I've recently started creating a digital wildflower scrapbook.