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<h1>Hello</h1>
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Welcome to my site! I’m a fifty-something IT wrangler based in
the sleepy, rural shires of East Anglia.
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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…
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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).
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Thanks for dropping by, and feel free to
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