Welcome to my piece of vanity publishing.

When I first had to do a web page for a course, all I could think of was to put together some links on things I liked and that interested me. Since then, quite a lot of people have looked at my thoughts on using chat on a website as a means of exchanging information, and adding my family trees has attracted the attention of some long-lost cousins .

Recently, hearing someone say they'd looked at the site made me realise that was more than I'd done for a while, and when I did I saw it in a new light. I knew I was - to put it mildly - unversed in graphic design (I know what I like and I think I understand why I like it, but don't have the imagination, skill or patience to create). More embarrassing, the content was - is - more than a bit thin and disjointed. The curse of the personal homepage - more about this in my thoughts on blogging (which I've just updated).

My photos on flickr This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from PatrickJWallace. Make your own badge here.

But what the hell, I'm still going to post some of my holiday snaps. I reckon some of them are OK.

Naturally I ran out of space here, not to mention the energy to keep on scanning old photos: It's so much easier to upload the latest digital ones to flickr.

And I've a few scrappy videos at YouTube as well.