As if the world doesn’t have enough blogs already, I’ve decided to start my own. Likely it will go unnoticed by the world, the novelty will wear off, and I’ll lose interest in maintaining it (how many orphaned blogs are out there anyway). Or maybe not. Who knows with these things?

Mostly this blog is intended as a place where I can collect and post programming tidbits and sample code, and maybe even a personal opinion or two.

So here we go…

Me in a nutshell: My name is Robert or Mark, depending on when and how you got to know me (my full name is Robert Mark Morley). At the time I write this I’m less than two months away from forty. Yikes. I started programming waaaay back when the Commodore VIC-20 was state of the art and cost more than a lot of laptops do today. Over the years I’ve tried to learn as many programming languages as I can, and even created my own at one point called M-Script.

Back in 1992 I founded the company that I still own and operate today: Islandnet.com. It was the first ISP and Web Host on Vancouver Island, and is still going strong all these years later. A few years ago I bought out my partners in the business and now I co-own it with my brother Steve.

The nature of my business means that today I code mostly in web-related languages like PHP and Javascript, with a lot of Java, Perl, and C/C++ behind the scenes as well.

On the personal side, I’ve married to a great lady and have four kids (ages 16, 8, 6 and 6) that I’m very proud of. I also have a beagle named Banjo. And a chinchilla. Whiskers.