The markets are up and down
I can't make head nor tail of it. If only Dave was here to guide me ...
Dave could paint too
Dave painted in oils, watercolours and he also drew with pastels.
Dave would have been 60 today
Here he is as a baby, with his Gran Hilda, probably in a caravan in Rhyl
We all miss him
You love Everton more than me
Dave loved football esp the Everton team of the mid 80s, Big Nev in goal, Ratters and Mountfield, Bracewell, Tricky Trev and Inchy, Sharpy and the brilliant Andy Gray up front.
Old joke:
Wife: sometimes I think you love Everton more than you love me?
Husband: don’t be daft, I love Liverpool more than I love you!
A potted history of Noggers Blog
This week is Dave's birthday week. He would have been 60 this coming Friday, March 26th.
I think way back in 2009 he was starting to think about blogging and market data. Over a cup of tea at my house in Knaresborough, he said to me "Mike, could you write a program to do x?". "x" means collating market data from various sources and make that available. I thought about it and said "yeah probably".
Dave was also keen to try out using my iMac to record some videos; so I think we did his first demo to camera (the iMac) in my small study.
Noggers Blog changed utterly from there. The first version was written in VB, the next in Visual Sudio C#, the third in an automation tool. The current version runs in that there cloud.
Dave was a pioneer in blogging; he worked hard at it and he played hard too ;-) I think the pinnacle of his success was in the 2011-2015 era when he had his own spot with Bloomberg, he loved that.
A few years ago after he passed away I had a bash at writing an Amazon Alexa skill that broadcast the contents of the rude Dog's Blog, sadly it was banned by Amazon. Dave would have chuckled at that.
What's really amazes is how we used it still is in the trade. I recently added Google Analytics to the blog and here is a snapshot of today's users. There are folks all over the world who use it.
Dave as a boy
My word, this is me (left) and Dave (right) taken on the doorsteps of our boyhood home in Toxteth, L8.
Even to this day I worry about his hand getting caught in the door.
Dave Norris - Blogger, Raconteur, Brother, Father, Artist
Over the next week or so leading up to what would have been Dave's 60th birthday on 26th March, I will be posting some old photos and Dave related memorabilia.
This was taken on lads only holiday in Mijas, with Dave wearing his beloved I am Spartacus t-shirt.
