About this site

See also:

• About me for a bullet-point version of who I am;
• my CV for something a little more formal;
• or contact for how to get hold of me.

This site is my personal home on the Web. I use it to mutter about what seems to matter to me at the time, and to point to projects I am working on or think are clever. I also keep my CV here, not that I'm looking for a job but you can still hire me to get a useful database-driven Web service launched in next to no time.

I recently completed a PhD in performance modelling in the Department of Computing, Imperial College. I have stayed on, working on PerformDB with Jeremy Bradley. See my academic home and our research group's site (which I built and run) for more about what I am up to at work.

I use my elsewhere page to get where I'm going most days. It may or may not be of some use to you, but at least gives you an insight into what I get up to.

There are a number of computers that Mary gracefully puts up with in our flat. That's the danger of marrying a geek, I suppose.

Naturally, I have a few things to say about booze.

Other projects

I should really write an up-to-date list of all the things I'm involved with, but if I did, I'd have less time to work on them. Here are a few things I have some kind of hand in, outside of proper paid work:

uriPlay

Led by Chris and Lee, to build a useful service to look up where a particular television or radio programme may be found. Current work includes creating a reasonably simple ontology for describing programmes using RDF.

Feed My Tv

An effort to build software to run a simple-to-use, but open box that lives under your television.

You should be able to tell it the kinds of things you like, and come to find them waiting for you.

MagicMobileMedia

A quick stab at making mobile media more hassle-free. We should have something to announce in April.

afterDRM

A new idea for a site, with a positive take on cool things we can do in systems that don't use Digital Rights Management technologies.

These different projects naturally share a particular philosophy about media distribution, and will quite likely share formats, protocols and code as well.