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I’m a geek. I live in London. I used to live in Plymouth (2004–2010), and before that I lived in Sunderland (1986–2004).

Things

Things I like: Python, Ruby, C++, Haskell, Lisp, JSON, semantic HTML, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, the Sisters of Mercy, Led Zeppelin, Tchaikovsky, Emacs, walking, cycling, vegetarian cooking, FreeBSD, Debian, guitars, books, socialist and liberal politics and philosophy, cheese, the German language, the subjunctive mood, non-relational databases, history, photography.

Things I dislike: Perl, PHP, XML, SQL, Windows, Lady Ga Ga, GUI applications, IDEs in general and Visual Studio in particular, the Central Line, television, newspapers in physical format, the Conservative Party, capitalism, right-wing libertarianism, sentences that end with prepositions, organised religion.

Work

I work for Mendeley. Mostly I write PHP and Javascript. Sometimes I write Ruby or Perl or Java. Sometimes I fix servers, or at least try to. My opinions are so unbelievably not those of my employer that, if you were to mistake them for such, I would laugh in your face. And, most likely, so would they.

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