The blog of Steve Root

Month: July 2006

  • First Lessons

    First lesson over! That was fun. Just like starting sixth form in so many ways. Meeting all the new people but with easier opening lines like “so, where are you from?”. Thinking of which, I should put this in the Root Memory category as I remember starting my Business Studies A levels and meeting my…

  • My return to education begins…. in a distant sort of way

    My return to education begins in just 2 hours. I say return but of course I’ve never stopped learning. However, I’ve signed up to a formal training course and paid a fair amount of money for the privilege. The course is “Zend PHP Essentials“. PHP is a programming language commonly used on web servers. It’s…

  • Sharpe's Trafalgar (Bernard Cornwell)

    I said a few weeks ago that since reading Bernard Cornwell’s ‘Saxon’ series I was going to buy some of his Sharpe books to read. Having always avoided the “Sharpe’s…” books I’m now going to be searching them out. They’re great! It seems the only downside of seeing Sharpe on TV is that I now…