Lazylaces was developed originally as a sandbox for my own ASP development, but, over the years, has grown organically, via being a personal blog, into a home for point'n'click games and other things I find on the net, and it now has it's own community of contributors and commentors. It is still developed & coded solely by myself, in ASP, though, and is totally homegrown - no third party blogging tools are used in the construction of the site.

The name - lazylaces - comes from a method of tieing shoelaces that means shoes can still be slipped on and off even though the laces are tied. At the time I thought this was very fitting as I always like to do things in the laziest - well perhaps simplest would be a kinder description - way possible. As it turns out though it's so much effort getting everything together for your own website it's not very lazy at all - but hey I can still like the name can't I?

My name is Graeme Walton, although if you've read lazylaces for a while you probably know me more simply as "graeme". I live in the UK, and when I'm not running Lazylaces I work as a web developer for a document management company in London, producing Intranet & Internet, based systems. I have been in IT for over 10 years now, with over 7 years in web development - my main work is with ASP, JavaScript, MS-SQL and IIS.

I live in the UK in my own flat (with a big fat mortgage) in a small village/town/suburb called Ash Vale, which is on the border of Surrey and Hampshire - quite near London where I commute to work every day. I work in Southwark (SE1) - near to the Tate Modern.

This site's original creation was inspired by a need to have somewhere to just muck around with ASP & JavaScript code outside of work, and was themed as a link log as I had enjoyed sites like MilkandCookies and zFilter for sometime. Today I still love coding for Lazylaces, but really the site is now all about community - I love the variety of people that come and visit, and regularly contribute to the site.

The lazylaces domain name has been mine since December 2000 - but there's only been something on the site since January 2002 when I signed up for hosting with Brinkster. The current site format only really started to take shape in October 2002.

I started the site using ASP written in server-side VBScript - as that what I used in my last job - but it has now all been re-written using server-side JavaScript, which ,despite initial reservations, I now prefer. Once again this decision was based solely on what I use at work, which is the only real reason I use ASP at all. Maybe one day I'll get round to trying out PHP as well.

As well as the standard ASP pages Lazylaces is also available on mobile devices (over WAP/GPRS), these pages are written in XHTML-MP, and for news aggregators in a news feed and comment feed, written in XML (RSS2.0).

The site is hosted by Brinkster on Win2003 IIS6 servers, which is a pretty standard web platform for me, and works out very well since that is what I am used to.

I'm currently using a combination of BlogFlux, ExtremeStats, and my own analysis for logging the site usage.

This site is intended to be viewed with: Internet Explorer 4+, Netscape 6+ (including FireFox 0.5+), or Opera 6+. There is also provision for Netscape Navigator 4+. I actually use Firefox 1.5+ as my main browser and thus this is likely to be the optimum browser for site performance and appearance.

Everything else I tested with seemed to work with varying degrees of success, but wouldn't pick up the stylesheets properly which can really mess with the layout - no browsers are blocked though. Your browser has been detected as CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html) 0.

So many e-mail addresses to choose from - but I regularly check: