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Your happy smiling author.
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Well, I've been racking my thoughts now about what
I can write when it comes to me, and I'm still at an impasse.
It's not writers block per se, it's just being crap about
writing about myself. Well, writing about me as a person,
anyway - I don't mind writing about what pisses me off,
but when it gets to writing about myself, well, it does
feel kind of weird.
Anyway, I'm 30, male (or so the rumour goes),
single, and an utter techie and geek. I've been a geek
for way too long, started off back in '80/'81 (although
I think I was probably a geek way before then, but that's
when I first really became an official geek with my introduction
to the Sinclair ZX81)
and then I've been in the same boat for the last 20 years.
And oddly enough it only really sounds bad when i say
that it's been 20 years, or 2/3rds of my life - up til
then even just saying "geek since 81" doesn't
really sound all that bad. Ah well, that's the way it
goes.
And yes, I live in Manchester, for my sins.
Actually, it's not that bad - I've lived in plenty of
far worse places. I've moved around the UK with work etc.,
and I have to say, I've been in the city for three and
a bit years now, and that's the longest I've been anywhere
since I started moving around. Kind of weird but there
we go.
The pictures on the right go some way to showing
the kind of stuff I work with all the time. Well, except
for the mooses (moose? Moosii? What IS the plural of
moose?) which are just a strange little thing of mine
- for some godforsaken reason, I like toy mooses. I use
a Compaq as the main PC, and a Toshiba Libretto as a laptop.
The Libretto's a funky bit of kit, ultra-slimline, Crusoe
processor, 12hour battery life, and it's a piece of hardware
that's not even released in the UK yet, I had to get it
in through Dynamism.
It's a Japanese model imported through the US and actually
has a keyboard with Japanese characters - it can get complex.
They're networked (and one of the future projects is wireless
network instead of cables) which makes life easier too.
Visible as the main desktop on both of them is a funky
bit of kit called xEarth, which basically shows Earth
(people who've read Neal Stephenson's SnowCrash may go
some way to understand the appeal of this) and where is
in daylight etc. If you're online, you can also set it
to show all the recent earthquakes, and it's just a fun
piece of software.
Hard as it may seem to believe sometimes (like
when I have problems with table alignments etc.) I've
been involved with website design, databases, SQL and
similar for the last seven years, which pretty much makes
me an old fart of the web world. I do use Dreamweaver
(Dreamweaver UltraDev if we're being pedantic) now for
basic site design, and also for general housekeeping work,
but I'm still just as at home using text editors like
TextPad when it comes
to most of the work. I worked with a company a couple
of years ago who only used Dreamweaver for site design
and woirk, and had absolutely no idea how to code raw
HTML - that was a real revelation for me - that people
could call themselves web designers, and have no keffing
clue about HTML. (But that's a rant for another day,
I'm sure)
Anyway, I'm not sure what else I can put here
for now - so I won't bother, I'll add to it as an when
I feel the need. In the meantime, this little lot will
have to do. I might bung a photo in at some point, but
quite honestly, don't hold your breath on that one. One
thing I'm even worse at that than writing stuff about
me is to do photos of me. Hey Ho. Live with it.
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