Sheep Shearers, Marathon Runners and Ocean Sailors
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2008-04-09 07:24:27 - Graham EllisWe have a wide wide range of customers. And I never know what I'm going to learn about from week to week. Now of course privacy is paramount so I won't talk about a customer without his prior permission, nor will I apply and pressure at all to obtain such permission. But there are times when it suits - mutual advertising if you like - to make comments.
I have written on one or two occasions in the past about sponsored events that delegates were about to undertake - running is popular - although I'm not sure whether or not I specifically mentioned marathons. It always surprises me to have a marathon runner on my course, yet it's not THAT unusual - which when you see the thousands who start does make sense - there's a lot of "them" (or "you") out there. A little more unusual was the delegate who had to leave sharply one day to shear his sheep ... or was it someone else's sheep under contract?
Here, today, is as a link to the web site of Ocean Mist - Andy was on my course last week and we were chatting about the joys of sailing; very different to the narrow boating I used to do, and perhaps again will some time. Andy comments about the link "I am of course happy to reciprocate on the off chance that there's someone looking at sailing pages who happens to also be interested in Tcl..." (but personally I would be happy if people link to us from his site to learn PHP or Perl or Python as well.
Actually, Andy, it's a small world. One of the sites you link to on your page is written by customers of ours, in PHP that we taught them!