"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness"
...The Dalai Lama
There are a few reasons for this site. The main one being a place for me to toy with css layouts and to use as a test bed for my latest and greatest creations. Closely following that is the general desire to have a spot to capture the random thoughts in my head, with the delusion that someone else out there may find a small speck of amusement or a mildly interesting pondering in amongst it.
Before you IE 6 users start complaining that the site looks crap view it in Firefox, as I have not tested or even tried to maintain any IE compatibility. This site is developed for Firefox alone at the moment; deal with it. =P I'll look at IE more when PHPify the site.
For those out there who don't know me, I'm a general geek. I've been working with computers in a technical capacity for longer than I can remember (which doesn't exactly say much given how terrible my memory is). I currently run the Web & Applications Department as a lead programmer for a company called Airnet.
I think I'm a fairly average geek: I live on sugar and caffeine, I spend perfectly sunny days in a dark room infront of a computer, my social skills are ... well ... lets just say they could do with some work and I don't get out much, and my spelling has turned to crap after years of relying on "F7".
Based in Hawkes Bay on the east cost of New Zealand, Airnet is an ISP and Telecommunications Company. We are party to the NAD and LMNP which puts us in relative industry standing to the incumbents Telecom/Telstra/Vodafone. We are by no means as large as any of them, and we only do fixed landline services, not mobile, but we own and run our own carrier network and are definitely more than just a blip on the industry radar.
After just over a year with the company, my job now involves not only web development for our numerous business customers, but also working on our internal systems (creating, upgrading, repairing) including everything from our voice billing platform to our monitoring systems or our broadband provisionsing systems. I'm also our company representative on several industry groups.
What? There is life outside of computers?
Ok, so I do occasionally drag myself away from the computer. I'm a volunteer fire fighter and have been for about 8 years now. I also like the usual Hawkes Bay stuff; bbq's and the beach in summer, hotpools and the spa in winter. I listen to a lot of music and watch a lot of movies. Every now and then I even make the time to go rockclimbing or camping or tramping or some other outdoors activity along those lines!