SageWorld.Co.Uk

 

This is the home of four great things:

 

1. My blog

2. My Computer-oriented website.

3. My Photography business website.

4. My articles on photography.

5. An excellent example of Nigerian scamming.

 

Why did I host all three on the same webspace? Simply for cost purposes. I get the webspace as a tax refund as it's a business expense and the domain names of sagephotoworld.com and sageworld.co.uk. Ideally I would not have to pay for the domain name of sageworld.co.uk but it seems to be part of the package. My other domain of sageworld.org is largely dormant due to the reasons given on the start page.

 

My articles on photography can be found here: http://www.sageworld.co.uk/publishedarticles/published.html

 

My blog is located here: www.sageworld.co.uk/blog. It's a pretty good read. I used to blog with Yahoo 360 but since Yahoo seems to be heading in a very uncertain direction, I felt it better to host my own blog.

 

My example of Nigerian scamming can be found here: /Scambait/scambait.html

 

So, what about me? Well, you can read a bit of my bio at sagephotoworld.com. The rest is pretty interesting although a bit crazy. About 10 years ago I applied for one job and gave details of what I'd been doing, didn't get the job and asked why only to find out that the recruiting agent didn't think I'd done what I actually had. What a narrow-minded individual and I'm rather glad I never worked with him. This has you wondering what I actually have been doing. Well... here you are...

 

I was born in Cardiff in 1967 then attended highschool from age 5 to 17 in order in the following schools:

  1. Blaen Baglan Primary School. This was pretty rough.

  2. Pontrhydyfen primary school. This was decent enough but sadly the school has since been demolished. In the 1970s, I met Richard Burton with his then wife Elizabeth Taylor when he visited the primary chool.

  3. Dumbarton House school. This has since been demolished. This school was very good but absorbed another school and as a result the tuition went to pot and many of the good teachers left.

  4. Gowerton Comprehensive. This has moved buildings a couple of times since I left. It's still going but was not the best school in existence. It wasn't as bad as some though.

 

After that I went to West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education which has subseqnently been renamed Swansea Institute of Higher Education. The tuition was pretty decent but the courses I took were several years out of date. As a result I had to update myself on more modern stuff on my own. The best thing is from that place I got some decent qualifications.

 

Following that I studied in Swansea University and Gwent College of Higher Education and gained my degree via these two institutions from the University of Wales of which they were member colleges. Finally I studied with the Open University - out of interest - and gained a TEFL qualification from Swansea College.

 

Having completed my education, during which I worked abroad as an English teacher in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Belorussia, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain and Belgium, I continued my computer and photography businesses. Well, the computer repair business was never really intended to be a real business but seemed to be the only thing people were desperate to pay for. I did originally want to program computers but work there never seemed to arrive and shareware sold (some sold last week - March 2008) but not in great quantities. I also had the problem of software piracy and the vagaries of Windows where some software would work under one installation but not under the next. My photography was purely freelance - there were too many other photographers around scrabbling for ever bigger slices of a shrinking cake to make it a mainstream business back then.

 

Eventually, after working in Europe and Eastern Europe for about 10 years off and on, I moved to the US. Since then my life has really taken off and I'm well established here in the US as a photographer.