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This page originated some time ago as a text generated page built from perl scripts. Later it became a blog because I had run out of time to create parts which I found useful in WordPress. Later, for performance reasons WordPress doesn't really scale on small hardware so I moved it all to a MediaWiki. Now I find that MediaWiki, PHP, MySQL and MemCache are all too hungry for resources and the task of the webpage is to serve mostly static content, so why bother with something that's dynamic. Now PubTAL is the best solution for me.

The data here is generally in categories of blog, linux news or unix.

I am generally interested in bash, LaTeX, mutt, screen and vim, which are used on a daily basis. Other interests include programming in perl, python, gdb and gcc.

In my earlier days I used to be SysOp of a BBS system where I wrote many of the 'doors' and menu systems (mid-late 1990's). These were mostly in Pascal and C. These systems were single user and single process. There's a large number of the BBS details that I had at some time dialed into, running up phone bills.

I once had enough time to write a document for linux gazette on DNS techniques back in issue 130.

Some time in 2007 I decided that it'd be cool to learn to write some apache httpd modules.

The linux kernel is very interesting to me and I have read several books about it, but I'm still waiting for some creativity before I find an area where a new module or alteration might be required, this is more an interest than an area that I'm active in.

For a few years I was a qmail administrator.

My degree is from Lincoln University in Computing and Internet Technologies, I have a HND in Computing from Reading College and an OND in Computing from Newbury College and I've worked in the ISP business since 2003.

I spent some time getting interested in IPv6, so took the certification test that he.net offers IPv6.

There's a wordpress blog that I occasionally post in.

Currently I find JSP the best solution for dynamic content.