<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-gb"> <head> <title>Ben Poole</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" /> <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=PT+Serif:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;1,400;1,600&display=swap" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Lato:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;1,400;1,600&display=swap" /> <meta name="description" content="The website for Ben Poole, a UK-based software developer, IT consultant, and director of the legacy application data specialists, LDC Via Ltd." /> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow,max-image-preview:large,noai,noimageai" /> <meta name="revised" content="Thursday, March 13th, 2025, 08:30:55" /> <meta name="author" content="Ben Poole, site@benpoole.com" /> <meta name="url" content="https://benpoole.com" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" /> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" /> <meta content="yes" name="apple-touch-fullscreen" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <header> <span id="linky-loodle" ><a href="https://benpoole.com/">Ben Poole</a></span > </header> <main> <div class="inner"> <h1>Hello</h1> <p> Welcome to my site! I’m a fifty-something IT wrangler based in the sleepy, rural shires of East Anglia. </p> <p> There’s <a href="/weblog.html">a <strong>very</strong> basic blog</a> within these pages. Whilst this site has existed for well over twenty years, that has been in <em>many</em> different forms. The more nerdy content from my old <a href="https://www.hcl-software.com/domino">Domino</a>-based site may follow at some point… </p> <p> You can also read about work stuff over at <a href="https://blog.ldcvia.com">the LDC Via blog</a>, and we have the obligatory social media accounts such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ldcvia">Mastodon</a> (the less said about Space Karen’s cess-pit, the better). </p> <p> Thanks for dropping by, and feel free to <a href="mailto:site@benpoole.com?subject=Hello%20from%20the%20website" title="Email link" >drop me a line</a >. </p> </div> <!-- inner --> </main> <nav> Home • <a href="/weblog.html">Weblog</a> • <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedict-poole">LinkedIn</a> • <a href="https://ldcvia.com/">LDC Via</a> • <a href="https://github.com/benpoole/">Github</a> </nav> <footer> <div class="inner">© 1997-2025 Ben Poole</div> </footer> </body></html>