from Geoff Cooper
gec@dircon.co.uk

I work with electron microscopy  (work horse machine)   , to which end I get to play with computers and cameras as well as microscopes. I also get to potter about  in  photographic darkrooms.   I don't feel old, (sometime before my last birthday) and I don't think I think old, (  Almost me  ) but I can't avoid being considered middle aged (or worse) any more. Cousin Gill (  Gill and I - just good friends   )  is now retired, even if she does still smoke and I have caught up with her height. I still have hair (   picture to prove it  ) even though I am a granddad (  GD  ) and there are 4 generations of us.

I have taken and processed photographs ( All my own work)  since the mid 60's ( all formats from 35mm to 5"x4" ) and still use cameras for work and pleasure, my web pictures are mainly prints scanned  to get them into digital files though I now have a Fuji 2200 digital camera and also have access to neg/trans scanners.

I first used unix disk space to move enormous postscript files around to the (then rare) photo quality printers that were around five years ago.   I then used unix disk space as a location to dump reports with images to, where they could be retrieved by browser, without stuffing up peoples mail box ( WORM - Write Once Read Multiple  )  Initially  my home page (  1st home )  was just to keep my  public html directory open, but as e-mail became the preferred method of communication at work,  I took to dumping stuff into hidden web directories and e-mailing the addresses as clickable links, so I elaborated my page a bit and separated work from personal  stuff ( Dircon home page  )

I am also interested in local history, living as I do, in Greenwich, with it's links to world time zones and industrial and military history.  The millennium year and the dome brought the full glare of international news on our borough ( home ) so I am in the process of adopting a new home page (  future front page ) when I have links to enough (s's)

Can't say everything in the garden is rosy ( caterpillars eating my apple tree )  but its not a bad life online or offline (  1999 holiday ) ,  the web has certainly opened the world up to me and I can't imagine working without it now.

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Warwick  Castle
Oxford Natural History Museum
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Skills
Photography
Microscopy
Writing
EDX elemental analysis
PC computer doctor
Windows (9.x) cleaner
Web page layout
E-mail author and Web forum leader
Informed on Science, local history, history of science