By night I am a student, web-developer and computer programmer; by day, a traveller, reader, writer and nature-lover.
I adore French, and there is a book on this site that I am in the process of compiling which will draw in the various bits of knowledge I pick up on my travels.
I have much experience with computing: including a year's paid internship for QinetiQ; a summer program on robotics at SciTech, Technion, Haifa; and three year's study at Imperial College, London.
I currently maintain the Chabad on Campus UK website. I designed it according to defined restrictions and wrote custom modules for the "branches" and "universities". I run it voluntarily, so don't have much time to keep it updated.
Most of the updates on this site are through the Blog. John Perry just won the Ig Nobel Prize for structured procrastination, which is what I am now focussing efforts on!
Other work includes:
In my free time, I enjoy travelling (both solo and with others). I read many, many books and enjoy writing prose. I have also written a few articles for Live!, Imperial College's online news centre. I love cooking and coming up with new recipes to try out on my friends. They never say no! I also go for long walks in the countryside and have participated in a conservation program in New Zealand.
I was on crack when I posted my last blog about running terminal through Vim. Terminal through Vim?! I must have been mad... it's all that crack I've been smoking. I realised the madness soon after the post, so I switched to GNU Screen. That lasted 2 hours - it was horrible trying to cope with the config file. I finally worked out how to rebind "Ctrl-a-| (vertical screen split - what a daft...
I love the idea of XMonad - it is a truly wonderfully useful Windows Manager. However, there is still the Windows leftover in me from years ago where I like prettiness as well as functionality. For me, XMonad is perfect but only when running a terminal and actually programming. At all other times, not being able to use my mouse and clicking big icons is a...
The New Scientist has always astounded me with the kinds of things it produces. Many scoff it as a non-credible news source; other praise it for its merriment. I cannot help but wonder what they are doing with their headlines these days. "Darwin was wrong" was a controversial front...
This is just awesome! Brains in legs... what will nature think of next?