The links are simply from here to sites that I have an active interest in managing.

Marble Bay is our antique toy business that Peta & I run on a daily basis. That includes RecoverToy which provides reproduction toy car parts. ReproBoxes where I offer all the reproduction ephemera that I have made over the last 30-odd years.

My hobby of die-cast toys and other childhood memories is found at Tony’s Toys.

For the working week I have my computer cap firmly in place for WrenMaxwell consulting in websites, servers, security, and remote IT support. I also work with UniPhi which is an enterprise Project & Portfolio Management System.

Links to all of these are in this post or the menu at the side along with my Tech Blog that I started a while back to record some of the more interesting (at least interesting to me) tasks and processes that I have come across in supporting IT systems for myself and clients over the years.

Keeping busy has never been an issue for me!

A post to start off a new site. www.thowden.com.au should help me co-ordinate all the various sites that relate to the things I do.

Why “Hello World”? Because that has been the standard for first output for a new program or testing a construct in programming since I started coding a VAX in Basic in the early 1980’s.

Why “one site to rule them all”? Besides from being a huge Tolkien fan since first borrowing The Hobbit from the school library, it seemed an appropriate tag line for a site that is primarily to link to other sites that I endeavour to manage in an eclectic life!