What to say here?  What do you actually want to know about me?

I’m a network and VOIP engineer, which means that I know TCP/IP, firewalls, routers and switches.  In particular, I know Cisco and Checkpoint pretty well and as it’s a hobby, I’m fairly up to date with competitors too.  Obviously, thanks to my background I’m reasonably clued up on the various open source alternatives out there too, such as Smoothwall, Asterisk.  Other favourite open source software of mine includes Cacti, Zenmap, OpenNMS and of course Drupal which powered my last site and WordPress which powers this one.

I became very jaded about both Windows and Apple in 2005 and started dabbling in various linux distributions until 2006 when I settled in Ubuntu-land.  I’ve been an on-and-off UbuntuForums contributor since, I’ve opened a few bugs and commented on a few others.

I use an Android phone.  It was a choice of the lesser of various evils – I will never buy, or support in any form anything that Apple does and I feel nearly the same way about Microsoft.  That left Blackberry, which I was bored with, Palm Pre which my company wouldn’t advocate and Android.  I am, however, delighted with my choice.

I’m trying to learn Python so that I can scratch a few development itches that have been growing over the past couple of years.  Jono Bacon and Rick Spencer have been instrumental in making this happen.  A while before I release anything yet mind you, but the pebble is rolling down the snowy mountainside.  Let’s see how it looks when it reaches the bottom.

I’m Scottish, live in Edinburgh, married, with children.

There you go.  Happy now?