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Welcome to Gav's World

Whether you've stumbled onto GavsWorld through some obscure search that you performed or you're a regular reader, I'm sure you'll find something here to entertain or inform you.

Where did GavsWorld come from? How about reading the History of GavsWorld.

Since I'm a bit of a gadget geek, I've decided to share any experiences / tips / tricks with gadgets - starting with my Asus Eee PC 4G (701) (which has now been sold to help fund my Asus Eee PC 901) with more items to follow, I'm sure!

Along with that, there's always my real ale ratings for you to be having a look through. You may agree with some of them, you may not - I don't mind ... it's just a bit of fun at the end of the day :-) Of course, if you like drinking, then you may like to play some drinking games. Also, what goes better with drink than a curry (link to my work's curry club external mirror).

Of course, my latest hobby is SCUBA Diving and you can find out about all of my antics under the water!

A good friend, Mark Naples made a self financed album in 2003 called The Insignificant Man which I did some of the photographic work for. The album is available to buy from here and Mark will even sign every copy. There are samples of a few tracks to give you a taster.

I've had requests from various people about the software that drives the website, so I've decided to make the software available for download, free of charge (for non-commercial use). It may take a wee while to figure out how it all hangs together, so I have fully documented the whole thing in the website template, so please read through before asking questions.

Since I have your attention (I know that since you're still reading this), how about checking out my charity pages where you can still sponsor my dodgy moustache(s)!

Anyway, have a browse and feel free to contact me.

Latest News

2010-02-19 : Website Template Updated : v2.13.0

Now at version 2.13.0.

Enhancements

Added social bookmarking icons that appear on each page.
Added the default_timezone since PHP >= 5.1 wants this for any time function calls.
Added the ability to hide the website title on the page - usefull if you have the name already on the background image.

New Setup Variables (see <setup-sample.php> for details)

$my_timezone
$my_enable_social_bookmarking
$my_main_title_hide

Bug Fixes

Stopped a filemtime call on Home.html if it did not exist under the condition of there being a Home.php, News.php and a valid news feed.

See the downloads page.

I host my pages on my broadband Internet service provider and highly recommend them to anyone looking to switch ISP, or pick their first ISP.
(and not just because I get 25p off my monthly subscription for every person that I recommend)