wee doors banging

If you’ve come here expecting girv dot net, DON’T PANIC!

After running the Wee Doors Banging blog on girv dot net for around a year, I found that I was writing articles covering three main topics: technical, cycling and “everything else”. Taking stock, I felt that these three subjects didn’t belong under one roof, so I’ve recently carried out a bit of reorganisation and split the original blog out into two standalone sites under their own domains.

I now maintain four “personal” sites covering different topics. I guess that confirms my geek status without a shadow of a doubt.

My original site, girv dot net, has existed in various guises and domains since October 1996. Today it covers “retro” computing and gaming, with sections dedicated to the Amiga, Amstrad CPC and Vic-20 systems, with games, cheats, utilities and more to play online and download as well as a browser version of Daleks to enjoy. It also acts as a repository for my work on the Amiga WHDLoad community project.

http://www.girv.net

Launched in 2008, johngirvin.com is my professional website, where you can find information on my career, skills and experience and see some of the web projects that I’ve worked on to date. For a more detailed view, or if you’re just too busy to browse, you can also download a concise and up to date CV/Resume in a variety of formats. There is also a johngirvin.com blog to which I occasionally post articles of a more technical nature.

http://www.johngirvin.com

The first of my recently launched sites, Rain Miles Count Double, is a blog about owning, maintaining, commuting and having fun on bikes in Belfast and Northern Ireland generally. I’m a keen amateur cyclist when I’m not at the computer keyboard and Rain Miles is intended as a kind of diary of my cycling life in the present day. There are articles on maintenance, commuting, the cycling lifestyle, fitness for cycling, occasional rants and opinion pieces and more.

http://www.rainmiles.com/

Last but not least,there is of course this site, Wee Doors Banging, which I describe as a catch-all blog to collect random miscellanery that I’d otherwise lose track of. But then you know that, since you’re here.

I’ve put redirections in place at the original girv dot net blog URLs, so you should be seamlessly redirected to the appropriate new site automatically, depending on which article you were trying to access. Please let me know if you encounter any problems with missing articles and so on.

If any of the subject matter mentioned above sounds interesting,  I’d invite you to browse around the various sites and tell me what you think.  See you there!