Welcome to my website
v3, the third incarnation of my personal website, is a stylistically diverse site. The freedom to style each page how I want—while still keeping some semblance of order. The menu up the top is your friend. It’s the one thing that’s always there.
journal3 is the reason for v3.
I keep a journal, which details in great detail every little detail of my daily life. It’s not always exciting, but does give a good indication of what my life is like, and presumably in turn what I am like.
It’s my collection of mundane daily life, interspersed with my attempts at photography, wit, and whatever else comes to mind. The journal index is probably where you’d want to start.
Or check out the most recent entry, start at the oldest entry, use the calendar, or the search page, or if you are still lost, the site map…
Journal Categories
accident amanda amy anna beach bill birthday blaise bronwen buderim bushwalking cairns cam & christine cam & tina camera camping car chris cinema clint college’s crossing cooktown coomera circuit dad daniel david dentist doctor ebay family festival flight flooding fortitude valley funeral gav & valerie gavan geek geoff & hillary gold coast goma grace guns hail haircut hollie ian ipswich john & sarah kara kate katie kieran kindle lamington national park laptop leeches lens light painting lightning linda markets maz moving mum natalie netbook nicole nudity outdoors phone photography pittsworth police qwab raymond rejects sabine sarah scarecrows scott shooting sick silas sit down comedy club sizzlers south bank stella storm stradbroke sunday live sunshine coast swimming sydney tamborine mountain the steamers toothache torches travel umart uq valerie waterfalls west end markets woodford work
Hard Answers
It’s where you go for all those hard answers—or if you have a question you need an answer for. A useful site, by Ned Martin. HardAnswers.net
Ned Martin’s Amused – Because Someone Has to Be
I believe you can tell a lot about a person from what amuses them, or sometimes, what doesn’t amuse them, so when I come across something that amuses me, I put it on my amused site. Plus it’s a lot of fun.
Amused Categories
aboriginal accident advertising africa alcohol america animals animated apple audio australia babies balloons bananas bears beer bikes billboards birds blonde board games boobs books bsod cars cartoons cats children comics communist computer games computers condoms cooking democracy dogs drugs easter eggs english evolution facebook fashion feminine hygiene flash flowcharts food games gay geeky grammar guns illusion imagery internet iphone irish it joke linux mac math medical microsoft movies music new zealand parenting phones pie charts pirates police political rabbits racist redneck religious risqué romance school seals sexist sms spiders sport technology tv university vintage war wifi windows wine women work zombies
v1 was my first attempt at a “proper” website. A few little bits of it have been saved.
the-i.org – Ned Martin’s Online Persona
I also have a website devoted to my online persona, “thei”, where you will find some of my photography, including some of myself, 
along with some information about me and where I live, amongst other things. There are also instructions for getting in contact with me via MSN or IRC, my musical tastes, and a whole lot more…
Ned Martin’s Public Files
There’s usually a few revealing things hanging around at my public file depository too, although be aware that, despite the name, they may not actually be intended for public view—read the disclaimer first.
nedmartin.org v2
v2 was a very fixed site. Every page, every section, was exactly the same—stylistically speaking—as every other page. It’s still there—go have a look. It was heavily focused on standards compliance, accessibility, and all that jazz. It seemed the “right” way to design a perfectionist’s site back then. Now I’ve moved on. Order in chaos is my current goal.
A Short History of this Welcome Page
It was a basic welcome page back in v2. v3 started with a newspaper themed welcome page, before adding a tiled background, and finally, expanding on the tiled background, before changing to its current masonry column style, as it is today.