What’s this all about?
Anything and everything. I guess you’d probably classify it as a blog but not really of the personal or topic specific type (although I do touch on these things now and again). Instead I like to post about good films I’ve seen, interesting links I’ve found, photos I’ve taken, cool technology, visual design, places I’ve been, stuff going on in the news and just about anything else that catches my attention. Whilst I cannot claim anything I post is interesting of insightful I enjoy doing it which is my main motivation, so why not?!
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What’s in a name?
I have been asked on numerous occasions why I choose to call the site ‘randomwire’. If you’ve read the above I’m sure you can already guess. Added to the random factor there we also so few decent top level domain names left (.com etc) when I started up the site that this was about all I could come up with that was catchy and easy to remember/spell. Basically I think it sounds slightly techy and non-topic specific which was perfect for my needs and has so far served me well.
Who are you?
A question I have often asked myself and have yet to come up with a satisfactory answer! I’ve been blogging since 2003.
I grew up somewhere in the South-East of England (in a fine city [hint hint]) which is far from the back of beyond as many people try to make out! I graduated in 2005 from Durham University with a BSc in Software Engineering (basically Computer Science). I have now moved to London where I work as an technologist for a business consulting and technology/interactive services firm. I’ve also worked in Beijing which was a particularly exciting time in my life!
Just in case you haven’t noticed I like weird foreign films (mainly Asian), technology (big time), photography and just about everything else which stems from those things. Most of my photos on Flickr were taken with a Nikon D70s.
What powers this beast of a site?
The site is kindly hosted by Killswtch on a rather powerful Debian server running Wordpress. In the dim and distant past I hosted everything off a 2mb ADSL connection from home but after the hits mounted the bandwidth simply wasn’t enough!
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