About

9 April 2006

My name is Robert and I make a living via IT consultancy. That means in theory you have a brilliant idea and you then pay me a lot of money to make the computer side of your brilliant idea a full realised success. In practice there is often a lot of fudge room about the “brilliant”, “a lot of money” and the “success” elements.

Actually I really 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.

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I also clearly like segmenting my life into neat boxes (probably numbered, probably starting with zero).

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