Me

At present I live in South Wales, UK – but am made of Northern DNA after being brought up around Ilkley and Skipton in Yorkshire.  Apparently I’m not all that far from Torchwood and am occasionally held up cycling in to work by filming for Dr Who, amongst other things (but more often than not it’s the really awful traffic Cardiff has).

I’ve previously entertained being: a scientific researcher – with specific interests in Glaciology and Earth Observation; a Senior IT Operations Consultant; a Financial Exchange bod, and; Local Government lackey. Now, however, I am doing mental pushups in a busy post delivering a radical overhaul of IT Services to around 40K users at Cardiff University.

My current choice of kit is mainly Apple Mac based, after trading my last Sun Blade 100 in for a bottle of Plymouth Gin last summer (purely because it was taking up too much room at home, and definitely *not* because I have some dependency thing going on). I switched from Redhat and Windows XP, and this has thrown up some interesting ‘opportunities’ in the past 12 months, not least of which is the lack of proper support for Macs from Humax as you can see elsewhere on this site.

Oh, and I really, *really* like Tea.