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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? Well here is the detailed 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 beer 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

2011-09-25 : Website Template Updated : v2.20.0

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Enhancements

Added the option of a PayPal donate button above the first category heading with a few more variables to configure it. The heading used will be a link to a page of the same name, so there needs to be one in /hidden_pages.
Moved the "Contact" captcha to below the comment field and changed "question" to "captcha".
Improved the page title for:
- "News.php"
- "Image.php"
- "Text Viewer.php"
- "Latest Updates.php"
- "Website Stats.php"
All done with a new include file "/includes/meta_title.php" to check for the page call before the page is displayed. Also allows a user definable file to perform similar tasks for their own pages.
Removed meta tag "description" as it was exactly the same content as the title, but was throwing up HTML warnings with Google Web Stats.
Improved the advertising of news feeds, since some servers present the username of the install which may not be desirable. User can now fix how the feeds are advertised.
Allow the user to chose their own captcha question / answers by creating a file called ./user_includes/botty_q_and_a.php where they are listed.
Now filters out any dodgy re-direct requests that have come through as %2520 for a space in the URL... just in case the .htaccess rules aren't working properly.

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

$my_paypal_donate
$my_paypal_donate_header
$my_paypal_donate_button_id
$my_paypal_donate_image
$my_feed_path

Bug Fixes

None.

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)