Damian Lappin's Personal Website
Hello and welcome to my personal website. I am an IT Company Director and have worked in computing since 1984 on numerous projects both overseas and in the United Kingdom. I currently operate an Internet Marketing business based in London.
I am married with two young children and my hobbies include photography, cookery and a bit of gardening when the weather permits. I have an intense interest in 20th century history and in particular the events of World War 2 within the European theatre.
In addition I have an extensive interest in all things aeronautical, which I interface with through real world level flight simulation software that connects with the virtual aviation community worldwide via the Internet, complete with realistic airports, photo realistic scenery, real world flight plans and procedures together
with online (human) flight controllers and pilots. To understand this why not visit Vatsim, IVAO or British Airways Virtual I am currently mastering flight planning and operations on the Boeing 747-400. I don't get to ride much these days since selling my horse and getting married but I still like to visit Burghley Horse Trials once a year which takes place at Burghley House Stamford. Burghley House is one of the stately homes that I like to visit, along with Hatfield House in Hertfordshire and Sandringham House in Norfolk. Although the houses themselves are fascinating to visit, I really go to visit the gardens and receive inspiration and motivation to attend to my own garden at home. Although I am quite a keen cook I tend to go for very spicy food which doesn't always go down too well at home. I have over the years perfected what I think is the ultimate Chili Con Carne which I may well publish the recipe for here on my website, when I have time. I also am a great fan of homemade houmous which again I have spent a lot of time trying to perfect. Sainsbury's houmous however is pretty good so sometimes I just buy it pre-made. I have never really tasted perfect houmous outside of the Middle East. I worked for five years in Abu Dhabi during the eighties and picked up a taste for arabic food, curry, lebanese mezza and in particular Houmous which I had never heard of before leaving for Abu Dhabi but which now seems to be available everywhere.
From a work point of view I am involved in web design and hosting for online business directories. I am competent in XHTML, Flash and Graphics design programs together with MySQL relational databases and PHP programming. I am currently extending my skill set into Javascript programming and multimedia authoring using Sony Vegas.