Warning: Mushy stuff ahead! Make sure you have a barf bag handy!This web page has been a long time in the making - and I'm sure you'll understand that many hours were put into its development. This is a chance to acknowledge some of the formative influences. Similarly, with my life, there were many formative influences. These are also listed below. Firstly, the obvious ones. To Julian Coldrey, who has been known to develop a web page or two for a living, thank you for your input in the design. To David, who has spent many a night in front of the television whilst I designed and implemented this site, and for being a wonderful person in general. Even though we didn't make it as partners, I still consider myself very lucky to know you, and still consider you a positive influence in my life. Thank you. To the man that has had the greatest influence on my life educationally without really knowing it, Dr Jeremy Evans. By taking any topic and encouraging us to take different perspectives on it (scientific, philosophical, sociological, ecological, and cultural), Jeremy became an educational visionary to me and many of his other students. Jeremy, your style and outlook are what I regard as the most formative experience of my university years, and your unconventionality and your interdisciplinary perspectives are something that I strive to adopt. A true academic - you will probably not realise just how much of an impact you have had on my life. To my friends, both locally in Sydney, elsewhere in Australia, and around the world. To those that I have met in my formative years in Gladstone, and to those that I have met since moving south, and to those that I have met on the Internet, I believe very staunchly in my friends, and each and every one of you are very special to me. Thank you. To the country I live in, Australia. You are the country that I was born in, have lived in all my life, and will proudly die in. You are a country that has provided me with so much opportunity, and with a society that is so accepting of the person that I am. Living in Australia, I do not have to pretend that I am something that I am not. Thank you, and never let me forget how lucky I am to be born here. And finally, my mother, father, eight brothers and sisters, six brothers- and sisters-in-law, and my eighteen nephews and nieces, none of which have a personal web page. Thank you to each and everyone of you - you are all so very special to me. |
LATE NEWS
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My Journal has all the latest news about my life, and is updated regularly. What's new on the site? Current Term: Chronic Pain. This is an interesting term and a future career interest - it's good to be back at a big hospital again too - I'm loving it! What's on in July/August 2007: |
CURRENT WEIGHT |
88.5kg (previously 121kg) more information on the Health and Fitness page. |
LINKS OF INTEREST |
