About

I’m a retired Systems Engineer.

I have an honour’s degree (BSc) in Operational Research & Computing and have spent most of my working life in IT.

My main interests:-

• Archery (mostly the English longbow these days)
• Backgammon
• Flying (particularly aerobatics in a Slingsby T67M)
• IT (still like to “keep my hand in”)
• Slide rules (I use one almost daily - its on my watch!)
• Watercolour painting

I use the following systems:-

• Laptop - FreeBSD + XFCE + i3
• Desktops - FreeBSD + i3
• Home server - FreeBSD + Bhyve for VMs
• Playground/lab - Arduino, Raspberry Pi

This site is written in Markdown and generated via Pandoc with a smattering of bash.

Questions?

• Why XR753?
• Why use Pandoc?

Special thanks go to the tilde.guru team for allowing me to host here.

Finally, I would like to close by thanking my lovely wife. Who, despite the years, still “puts-up” with me, and, without whom, I would be totally lost!