Ceilidh! Treeton Community Centre on Saturday November 24th 2007

Just a quick note to say my Mum is (part)organising a ceilidh (English country dancing) with CHEAP JACK providing the music and Brian Smith calling. It's Saturday, November 24th 2007, 8.00 till 11.00 pm, at Treeton Community Centre so make a note in your diary now!

Tickets cost £4:00 and best to get them early. Contact me for information. Last time I took people to a ceilidh they all loved it so I hope to see you all there for this!

Treeton Community Centre
Pit Lane (off Wood Lane)
Treeton
Rotherham
S60 5UY [map]

BBC Delivery On-Demand Open Consultation

Well worth spending a few minutes filling in this open consultation if you care about how the BBC should develop it's on-demand content services. I made a point of emphasising my opinion that open standards should be embraced for content delivery and that third-party suppliers of the service (e.g. ISPs) should not be subsidised to allow/encourage the use of such on-demand features. I think the first point is one which everyone would instantly agree on, after all there is no technical reason to lock ourselves in to a proprietary system when there are so many alternatives. However, some people might query my second point so here's my logic. read more...

Center Parcs

Just got back from our little holiday and centre parcs and thought it's a perfect time to try out Picasa2 and it's new web albums. Click here or below for the gallery.

Pablo Six

Thought I'd plop a link up on here to my would-have-been-brother-in-law's myspace page, the largely fruit and nut based mr pablo six. Hopefully he'll get some more of his songs on there for your listening pleasure shortly.

He's got a different MySpace page now. Why? Who knows!

About freakin' time too!

Yes I've finally joined the modern world and got myself a blog. It's been on my 'to do' list for over two years so apologies for the delay. Free coffee or tea will be provided from the refreshment trolley.

Rather than just bolt on another script I've replaced the humble static HTML pages with a content management system. Of course there was only one choice of CMS for me and I've been waiting for Drupal 4.7 to finally come out of beta/release candidate status before deploying it for real. read more...

About Me

Having been rushed in to taking down the embarrassment of a website that was here before (thanks Cat) there is now that inevitable moment where you have to dig deep and find something to better it. Hmm, well let's get the boring stuff out of the way first.

I'm Will Dashwood, self employed web developer, operating under the name w3Factory. Currently living in North Anston, on the outskirts of Sheffield, in a lovely detached house with a big garden, but moving soon to Thurcroft once the house has been done up.

There are just a few simple things in life I enjoy on a regular basis. I'm listening to music about 90% of my waking hours. I have a nice vinyl selection (just about every Faith No More record released in the UK) and an even bigger digital collection. I'd probably get more work done if I wasn't manic air drumming to a bit of System of a Down or getting down with my bad self to some Soulwax but where's the fun in that?

I love retro gaming on the old MegaDrive along with party orientated titles (Sing Star, Dance games and Buzz). Whenever we have a big meet up round these parts you know there's gonna be no shortage of games to keep the crowds entertained. 10 pin bowling anyone?

Business is going well, plenty of projects on the go. I do have a tendency to take on bigger, slightly unusual projects which require far more research than normal and as such are hard to make profitable. I'm also balancing this with property development which would probably be more lucrative. Before w3Factory I was technical director of Website World and before that, a programmer for D6 which was essentially the same company in a different role. read more...