Enjoying the sun on the LUSCR summer
tour (Church Leigh, Staffs, July 2008).
Welcome to Ben Willetts's website. It was started in 1997 in the Mathematics & Oceanography computer room at the University of Liverpool (while putting off my exam revision), and has been up and running ever since, although it's changed host, address and certainly style and content many times since then.
About me: I'm 30 years old, was born in Tokoroa, New Zealand, grew up in Surrey, spent three years at the University of Liverpool learning to ring church bells, moved back to Surrey for a few years, and finally moved to Cambridge. I work for Royal Mail in the Cambridge Rurals area, which involves getting up far too early. My main hobbies are ringing, cycling, orchestral music and singing, and drinking real ale (which goes with the others anyway), and I'm also studying for a BSc in Mathematics with the Open University, which I should finish in 2010.
Most of what's on this site is ringing records, so there's not much interesting here unless you're a fan of obscure statistics, for which see the ringing records page. Over the last few year or two I've been teaching myself the programming language Perl to make keeping records easier, which has been quite fun. (I also study maths and use LaTeX, so I suppose I score quite highly on the geek scale.)
New stuff (19 April): I'm working on the statistics pages for peals and quarters, like this one,
for example. Should be finished in a year or two. Still haven't managed to get the ability to sign in and leave comments working, but that's next on
the list. In the mean time, do
email comments
to me if you wish – at
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