Articles Miscellaneous writings and collected information
| Articles Miscellaneous writings and collected information |
| A4iDEAS Comprehensive collection of famous Birthdays, Anniversaries, Events |
| Links Website links |
| Lists Links to lists pages across site |
| Music Lists, charts, information, record reviews, ranting |
| Photo Album Latest photos |
| Poetry Published own work, and an A-Z anthology of published and unpublished poets |
| 2001/9/25 | Created
website offline as part of OCR course Registered InfoMan with Tripod |
| 2001/10/17 | Added Astrology section to website |
| 2001/10/22 | Website 1st published online, uploaded from OCR course centre, Swindon |
| 2001/11/5 | Added Articles section and Feedback Form to website |
| 2001/11/19 | Added pages and secondary themes to website |
| 2001/11/26 | Copied web to home computer |
| 2001/12/4 | Copied
web to second home computer and added pages. Uploaded web from home for first time |
| 2001/12/8 | Restructured site and added Music section |
| 2002/1/21 | Added Poetry section |
| 2002/5/8 | Began posting Birthday/Anniversary/Events data to A4iDEAS section |
| 2002/7/29 | Completed initial 12-month posting of Birthday/Anniversary/Events data and began rollover cycle of updates and revisions |
| 2003/4/16 | Added Photo Albums section and began posting own photographs by album |
| 2003/5/25 | Began transferring Photo Albums to Wanadoo's My Photos site and converted Photo Album page to a rolling display of favourite recent photographs |
| 2003/9/8 | Monthly total of page views first exceeds 2,000 |
| 2003/9/20 | Monthly total of page views first exceeds 3,000 |
| 2003/10/9 | Monthly total of page views first exceeds 4,000 |
| 2003/12/10 | Monthly total of page views first exceeds 5,000 |
| 2005/3/14 | Monthly total of page views first exceeds 7,000 |
| 2005/4/5 | Monthly total of page views first exceeds 8,000 |
Laurence Upton grew up in Sutton Coldfield, near but at
that time quite distinct from Birmingham. After a two-year local foundation
course in art he studied graphic design at Wolverhampton College Of Art and also
acquired a couple of A-levels in English and Sociology.
His love of music found
him cataloguing records at the BBC Gramophone Library in the West End of London.
While there, he bought a small house in Crouch End, though by the time he left the BBC
in the eighties due to
a rare hearing condition called hyperacusis he had moved to the Chilterns.
He
later moved to a former 18th Century forge in Wiltshire, where he set up his own one-man business, a4iDEAS,
which lasted a decade, until his hearing condition rendered him incapable of
work in the eyes of the authorities. In that time he was preparing and selling ready-made word-processor diaries, and collections of
trivia (birthdates and events in history).
Recent years were spent in part having to establish the
validity of hyperacusis as a condition with the British
authorities, though he continues to maintain the data collections that
formed the backbone of his business, and cut-down versions of the information he
published are now
freely available on this site. His keen musical interests have been
furthered by the reviews he writes for this website.
His many
hobbies include photography, driving, writing, films and musicology. As a result of submitting some of the CD reviews published
here to Amazon, as well as reviews in other categories, he has become one of their Top 100 UK reviewers, and also ranks
in the top 1,400 in the US.
This site copyright © 2001-2010 Laurence Upton. All rights reserved.
This page last updated: 01 February, 2010
