Welcome to my (legacy according to Apple!) .Mac Homepages. After 7th July 2009 it seems that we cannot get at then to edit them via the Homepage editor. The links listed below lead to various web sites which I manage for other people. I started a Blog at the end of August 2006, and have experimented with podcasts, these disappeared with the demise of this Homepage system, but can be resurrected via iWeb. See BMM @The FT.
Other links are to various parts of the .Mac site, and some relics of my University days, going back to 1996 via the Wayback Machine. Firstly, meet Joseph William Maher, my two year old grandson, enjoying a croissant on a French beach during summer 2006. A sophisticated lad already! He was joined by brother William on 11/11/2006 (at 11am!).

Joseph, Chris, Joanna and William, July 2007.

Managed Sites

• web.mac.com/john.maher/iWebThe replacement for the Homepage system
• The Morris RingFounded in 1934 the Morris Ring is an association of over 200 male morris dance sides
• Mainly Morris DancingA link site started in 1994 which lists about 800 Morris Dance sides from all over the planet, see also the Horse Chronicles
• Chris JonesChristopher Jones is a Sheffield poet - and the father of my two grandsons, Joseph (right) and William
• The Maji Safi ProjectsMaji Safi mean 'clean water' in Swaheli, this is a project to help people in Kenya, especially children with their schooling
• Bristol DownswatchBristol Downs Watch: Campaigning to Preserve Bristol Downs and the Avon Gorge from goats and tree felling!
• The John Gasson Jig CompetitionThis competition is organised in memory of John Gasson, who was tragically killed on his way to Sidmouth Festival in 1987. John was himself a fine jig dancer. Whether dancing or playing, his personal standards were high, and raising the general standard of display dancing was something very dear to him. Hopefully, this competition has helped this aim during the last twenty years, and will further enhance the standard of morris jig dancing in years to come. This competition is sponsored by Pete Collinson, Ian Campbell, Trefor and Rhiannon Owen, Janet Dowling, Chris and Tracey Rose.

Blogs and Podcasts

• Morning Bike RideI cycle around Bristol Downs several mornings a week, this is a record of the rides, also noting the birds I see at the Gorge, particularly the Peregrines. The Blog now has over 200 entries - and many different estuary birds
• John's Video BlogsThis is a test site to try out the newish art of video blogging
• BMM @ The Folk TraditionBristol Morris Men presented an evening of songs and some dances at the Bristol Folk Tradition.

On This .Mac homepage

Mainly Morris Dancing was started in 1994, firstly using a Mac II as a server, then for several years on a Slackware Linux server 'emrs.chm.bris.ac.uk' - emrs short for electron magnetic resonance server. EMR was my main research interest during my last dozen years as a lecturer in Bristol University. Apart from these sites a number of other sites that I wrote whilst in the School of Chemistry are still extant - over three years after my retirement! Moreover the TAL (Test And Learn) web pages were updated in 2005! The sites which still appear on the School of Chemistry system are part of Paul May's MOTM (Molecule of the Month) series. Whatever, sites from my University days can also be found on the Internet Archive, the Wayback Machine, though emrs started two years before the Archive appeared!
The shields used as a backdrop for this page are believed by some to be a coat of arms for the Mahers. However, what a gaelic sept is doing with a heraldic device, I'm not too sure.
Some of the effects on this page may not work unless you use the FireFox Browser.

• WalkiesSt Cuthbert's Way and Cumbrian Way, the West Highland Way, and the Cleveland Way, so far ...
• JosephJoseph William Maher
• CookeryNavrattan
• RMRose Moresk in Cheltenham
• MorrisMorris dancing picture albums
• MaherWhats in a name - Maher - some researches into our family name and the background to the old family farm on Shanboe
• Joseph in SheffieldFebruary 2006. If these don't load the first time, try again! Same with the other albums.

To test my Internet Connection Speeds

School of Chemistry

• MeThis was my Bristol University Chemistry staff page now shown ia the Wayback Machine - the Internet Archive - October 2004
• emrs.chm.bris.ac.ukMy first linux server, started around 1994 via the Wayback Machine as of 29th February 2000
• Tigertiger.chm.bris.ac.uk was the School of Chemistry ESSO Server - note the Tiger! Note also the 1997 web project for my CM1 students. Yes, we were the first to have such projects!
• TALThe Test and Learn multiple choice internet questioning system. TAL predates the Web! I'm delighted that this is still there - and updated in November 2005!
• CaeruloplasminCaeruloplasmin is the main copper metalloenzyme found in blood. You will need the Chime plugin to experience this in all its glory!
• Vitamin B₁₂Needs no explanation, but has a special place due to the connection with Dorothy Hodgkin. You will need the Chime plugin to experience this in all its glory!