Hi. This is the place on the web full of things to do with me. I'm an actor, writer, film-maker, occasional open source hacker, sometime creator of web curiosities, and very rarely a photographer. I was chief technical officer for tangozebra, now part of DoubleClick (now part of Google), where I was subsequently lead technical architect. My development background goes back to working in assembler and trying to write far too complex things in BBC BASIC. These days I'll knock up new things in PHP, Python or (sometimes) Java. If you need a consultant technologist or technology strategist, I'm available for hire.
I'm passionate about story telling; about physical movement and having fun with what your body is capable of. I strongly believe that being well-connected with your body and your sensuality is essential to living an enjoyable life.
Plain Scaling
The recent stuff on Wide Finder has been pretty fun, and I'm typing this during the Velocity conference on performance and operations, so it seems as good a time as any to announce a new blog I've created: Plain Scaling. I can't guarantee it'll always have lots of stuff in there, but my thoughts on scaling and performance will end up there. In particular, I've likely got some more stuff on WF-2 coming following conversations with some Sun guys at Velocity.
Of course, this is more of a pain to follow than just one blog, so I've set up a little thing using Yahoo! Pipes to bring them all into one RSS feed containing all my blog entries - at least in theory. Currently it won't cope with the Atom feed generated from this blog, which seems to be a bug in Pipes; there's definitely a blog post coming on that. If I can't fix it using Pipes, I'll write my own approach, but I really don't want to.
Anyway. There you are.