About Me.

A few people have e-mailed me with personal questions in the past, so I have decided to put some personal information on this page.

My name is Steven and I live in Scotland; I have been interested in computers and photography since a very young age.

It all began back when I was about eight, when I had just completed my first computer program, it was a very simple program, but it was the beginning of what was to become my main hobby for many years. Later on I acquired a Spectrum +3 that I used to write programs using BASIC. Many years after that I had written many games and programs using the Spectrum, and it was time to move on, and I started using a PC. My first PC Programs were written using GW-Basic, which was the best programming language available to me at the time. After a while I started using Qbasic, and began work on the DOS Desktop shell programs, four versions were written.

After the completion of DOS-Desktop 4, I started learning to program using C++, and then the Squiggy project began. The Squiggy project was going to be called DOS-Desktop 5, but as I was doing the project, I had created a Graphical User Interface for the program, called "SJG-GUI", and someone suggested that I pronounce it "Squiggy!" So from then on, the project was referred to as "Squiggy." Unfortunately I had to give up on the Squiggy project when I started my college course in computing.

It was just after then, I created my first web site, Steven's PC Stuff. It was a basic site, with a white background, and simple text.

At College I started using Turbo Pascal to write my programs, as that was the preferred language to use in College. And later on, we moved on to using Delphi.

Over the coming years, I re-designed the Steven's PC Stuff web site twice, with version two and version three, and I won many awards from Internet organizations for those sites.

I am now a student at University doing a course in Multimedia Systems.

We now have version four of Steven's PC Stuff, and my latest site, Steven's Pictures.

As well as computers, I also like photography. I am an amateur photographer. I consider photography to be a hobby of mine. I like to travel, and take pictures of the sights. I especially like taking pictures from tall buildings and helicopters, and taking pictures of bridges, and buildings at night.

I also like listening to Classical and Jazz music. I normally listen to this while travelling in my car. I also enjoy campanology (ringing church bells) and I go bell-ringing every Tuesday night in Edinburgh.