My name is Jemma (Jem) Turner and I am a web developer for a local marketing company in the UK; when I’m not at work coding I’m at home poking my free scripts and writing articles instead. I’ve been developing websites since early 2000 and have a love for PHP, X/HTML and CSS. I also like to play with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and see this website as an example of my success.

I have a strong sense of humour, a passion for all things geeky and a serious geek t-shirt fetish. I like a good cup of coffee (milk, two sugars) and frequently indulge in the wrong sort of food. Creme eggs were made to taunt the devil, I tell you.

Aside from computing and maintaining my free scripts (the Bella~ series), my hobbies stretch to photography (purely amateur), reading (PHP manuals/Terry Pratchett) and spending time with my beautiful niece and nephew. I am also a huge Nintendo gaming fan and the current owner of a GameCube, Nintendo DS and Wii. The latter justified by the notion that it will help me get fit.

I share a house with my long-suffering partner of nearly 7 years, Karl and my adorable black cat, Hex. Karl has his own website but doesn’t quite share my love of mark-up. We got together after I left school and have been together since. Talk of marriage results in the decision that — if we ever do bother — we’ll both do it in our jeans and a t-shirt. We’re cool like that.

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This is my website. I write about personal crap that nobody ever understands; rant wildly about the Internet/the vast amount of idiots that use it; and distribute knowledge about my favourite subjects. I am hosted at Site5.com — a great host with rapid support and a bloody reliable server.

Although for nearly 3 years I rode the Interwebs waves with my custom-made CMS/weblog system, the site has now been converted back to WordPress. I currently use Akismet, DoFollow, Exec-PHP and WP-Mint plugins to keep the whole thing ticking over nicely.