My name is Robert and I make a living via idea management. This is a new direction after a period in consultancy, now instead of telling people what to do (and being ignored), I do it and have to make it work.
I love what I do and I enjoy programming and creating something where there was nothing before. I side with the craft rather than science of computing. I think computers really can make people’s lives better and if they don’t then it is because someone is not trying or caring hard enough.
I started this blog to capture a lot of my thinking and ideas about my work. It is also handy for letting off steam or immediately capturing the solution to some problem that I have been wasting my time on and which no-one should have to waste time on in future.
As time has gone by more trivial stuff has been creeping in, partly because WordPress is just a brilliant blogging platform. Most notably the cultural stuff and my most trivial hobby of spotting famous people when I’m wandering round London where I currently reside. I was actually born and lived half of my life in Wales, I moved to Bristol to study at university and ended starting my first job there.
I like:
- Music and have a blog about it called Elysium Fields
- Books
- Comics
- Boardgames and Computer Games
- Television and movies, just like everyone else
I also clearly like segmenting my life into neat boxes (probably numbered, probably starting with zero).
