Me. Hmmm. Does anyone bother to read these things? I guess people out Googling. I'm a geek. I'm a software engineer for 3PAR in their Belfast office. I used to run a small ISP called Black Cat Networks, but sold it in July 2007. In the past I've also worked for Norwich Union, Cisco (as part of Ensoft) and Nortel Networks. I'm also involved with Debian, but don't do enough for it.
I currently live in Belfast but have previously lived in Castlerock, Norwich (for 6 years, longer than I expected), Harpenden (for just over a year) and I spent 3 years living in Oxford while at university. Originally I'm from Northern Ireland - I was born and bred in Belfast, then moved to Newry when I was about 12. My parents still live there and I go home to see them a few times a year (more now I'm living here again obviously).
I'm not organized enough to have anything I'd call a hobby. One day I'll get round to learning to ride a motorbike. Previous impediments to this happening have disappeared and now the main thing stopping me is my own laziness.
I like strong black coffee, strong tea with a dash of milk, Guinness and red wine. Though not all together. My music tastes vary; I've been using Last.fm for a few years now, so that might give an idea of at least some of what I like. I also have an Amazon Wishlist. I don't like dance. I'm a jeans and t-shirt sort of person; smart casual scares me (though I seem to constantly end up with jobs that require it, thankfully not the current one).
Computing-wise I prefer unix-like OSes. I run Debian GNU/Linux almost everywhere but spent several years with FreeBSD as my desktop OS. I'm a colour text mode junkie (mutt, vim, tin, irssi), though my browser of choice is Firefox. I like C and Perl, but seem to have collected a large number of languages I've done something in over the years.
I don't really have a lot more to say. My website, like many others, lacks content but I feel I should have one. I suggest you move along now. :)