This site is not a blog in the traditional sense, you most likely won’t find my attempts at poetry, philosophy, or politics here. More likely you’ll see stuff about random gadgets I like, or music I’m playing a lot, or fun stuff on the web.
A little background: I live in Hoboken, New Jersey with my fiance, 5 PCs, 1 Mac, 4 consoles and a couple of turntables. I’ve been messing around with computers and related toys since I was about 11 (which was longer ago than I care to remember), starting on the BBC Micro and moving through various Amstrad and Atari machines until finally building my first PC in 1994. You may guess correctly from all this that I’m British! After graduating from Imperial College in 1998 I got a job as a programmer at a major investment bank, where I still work. I specialise in server-side Java programming, up until recently I was working on the Bank’s client-facing web portal. Currently I’m branching out into client side and non-Java applications in my role as a performance and scalability expert within the sales trading division.
Outside of work, I have a few hobbies, most of which will feature on this site to some degree. There’s photography (mainly landscape/cityscape but with some portrait and street work recently), music (there’s a whole section on music and DJing) and general geekiness. Amazingly my fiance puts up with all this (including the late nights hunched over a browser) and for that I am immensely grateful.