Hello

I am a member of the Newcastle University UNIX team.

I used to work for the Web team. As is traditional for people who work in the web, my personal page is usually out-of-date and of a pretty poor standard.

You may have met me through one of my personal interests, detailed below.

My weblog is syndicated here and here.

Computing

I am a computer enthusiast: both hardware and software, although I am more experienced with software. I contribute to a variety of open source projects (a minor claim to fame is this trivial code in Linux). There are fragments of code and other things in the code and unix sections of my website.

My operating system of choice is Debian GNU/Linux. I’m a developer-to-be. Here is an overview my debian involvement.

Here’s my GPG key (although you are better off fetching it from a keyserver—the fingerprint is FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238).

University

I graduated from the University of Durham (St John’s College) in July of ‘04, after spending three years studying Computer Science. Whilst there I did a few things, including maintain the St John’s JCR web page. Here is a graduation picture (214K).

Personal

I’m a reasonably left-leaning vegetarian. I’m interested in consumerism, in particular the feasibility of recycling and maintaining a reusable lifestyle.

I enjoy Ice Skating (you may well find me in Whitley Bay Ice Rink on Saturday afternoons) and (less frequently) Cycling, although I do not compete professionally in either. One day I might take up Ice Hockey.

I’m also a bit arty. Part of being arty includes taking photos.

Me, Elsewhere

This is my current ‘Buddy Icon’: (old ones)

My PGP key, although that is likely to become out-of-date pretty quickly. I’d suggest grabbing it from a keyserver such as subkeys.pgp.net or pgp.mit.edu.