Warning: Mushy stuff ahead! Make sure you have a barf bag handy!
This web page has been a long time in the making - and I'm
sure you'll understand that many hours were put into its development.
This is a chance to acknowledge some of the formative influences.
Similarly, with my life, there were many formative influences.
These are also listed below.
Firstly, the obvious ones. To Julian Coldrey,
who has been known to develop a web page or two for a living, thank
you for your input in the design.
To David, who has spent many a night
in front of the television whilst I designed and implemented
this site, and for being a wonderful person in general. Even
though we didn't make it as partners, I still consider myself
very lucky to know you, and still consider you a positive
influence in my life. Thank you.
To the man that has had the greatest influence on my life
educationally without really knowing it, Dr
Jeremy Evans. By taking any topic and encouraging us
to take different perspectives on it (scientific, philosophical,
sociological, ecological, and cultural), Jeremy became an
educational visionary to me and many of his other students.
Jeremy, your style and outlook are what I regard as the most
formative experience of my university years, and your unconventionality
and your interdisciplinary perspectives are something that
I strive to adopt. A true academic - you will probably not
realise just how much of an impact you have had on my life.
To my friends, both locally in Sydney, elsewhere in Australia,
and around the world. To those that I have met in my formative
years in Gladstone, and to those that I have met since moving
south, and to those that I have met on the Internet, I believe
very staunchly in my friends, and each and every one of you
are very special to me. Thank you.
To the country I live in, Australia. You are the country
that I was born in, have lived in all my life, and will proudly
die in. You are a country that has provided me with so much
opportunity, and with a society that is so accepting of the
person that I am. Living in Australia, I do not have to pretend
that I am something that I am not. Thank you, and never let
me forget how lucky I am to be born here.
And finally, my mother, father, eight brothers and sisters, six
brothers- and sisters-in-law, and my eighteen nephews and nieces,
none of which have a personal web page. Thank you to each and everyone
of you - you are all so very special to me.
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