I ori­gin­ally come from near Glas­gow, Scot­land — where I dis­covered early on that my first choice of a degree in Micro­bi­o­logy focussed a little too much on yeast when I was more inter­ested in its main by-product.

Since then, life can be best described as a series of internal con­ver­sa­tions along the lines of “where do I go now?.” These have led me into journ­al­ism (way back then, for Gay Scot­land, for Gay Times, HIM Magazine, and the Pink Paper; more recently for IT Expert Magazine).

After that I fell into IT (in 1994, to CIX — the UK’s first and fore­most user-orientated online forum pro­vider and one of the UK’s earli­est ISPs, then in 1996 to Unisys, where I learned how to do big pro­jects right. In the dot­com crash I was, er, encour­aged to set out on my own, work­ing on pro­jects cor­rectly and com­pet­ently for small to medium-sized companies).

I live in Manchester, Eng­land, though love that it’s only 2h 10m on the train to Lon­don. I still spend too much of my time in front of the key­board, but do take breaks for the vari­ous arts events, queer and oth­er­wise; for study­ing for a Bach­elor of Laws (Hon­ours) at The Open Uni­ver­sity, for spend­ing time with friends, and for rid­ing my motor­bike when the weather is good.

This blog is a col­lec­tion of my pub­lic writ­ings and mus­ings, plus a series of links to and from vari­ous sites I’ve recently found inter­est­ing. Thanks for reading.