Home Life
Born in the golden era of the flared trouser I have now reached the age of 35. After many years living in London I relocated to the West Country and currently reside in the city of Bath. I live here with my partner Grace and our almost 3 year old daughter Evie.
Work Life
For pennies I work at the Bath based web company Carsonified. My current role is editor of Think Vitamin, a “magazine” web site dedicated to all things web. I also host the bi-weekly podcast Think Vitamin Radio.
Prior to joining Carsonified I worked as a freelance and contract web developer using PHP and ASP.Net. Before that I worked on web projects for the NHS in East London.
Interests & Things I Like
- The Django web framework
- Mojito cocktails
- Baking bread
- Magazines – I subscribe to far too many
- Transport Maps and the London Underground in particular
- Film
- The Cold War, especially Berlin during that period
- Dining out & taking pictures of food
- Coffee
- Creating WordPress plugins. Read my WordPress profile.
- Mad Men
About This Site
I have unsuccessfully run other “personal” blogs in the past but thought it about time to start documenting ideas, links and other assorted “stuff” in one place. This site is a collection of posts and links on things I find interesting.
I mainly link and write about web related topics but also cover things as diverse as travel, kids (and the challenges of being a parent), food and drink and media.
This site uses WordPress, a few useful plugins, and is hosted on a shiny new (ve) server from the good people at Media Temple.
The icons are from a great set called “Iconic” by P.J. Onori and are used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
Code is managed and versioned in Codebase by the talented crew at aTech Media. I also use Point for DNS.
Personal thanks to Chris Lea for his help setting it all up.