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I am a London based Broadcast Engineer working for Arqiva Ltd, this site serves as both a personal and professional outlet for me and includes my often neglected blog, various web meta as well as my CV and other bits and pieces.

Note: Please excuse the current state of this site, its undergoing a slight design tweak so it may look a little messy for the next day or so.

Recent activity...

Facebook Status update: Duncan is tracking his new laptops progress on FedEx, currently somewhere between Memphis and Stansted. Yesterday at 5:42 pm
Facebook Status update: Duncan should maybe start paying some more attention to facebook. Tuesday at 1:16 am
Google Reader Shared item: Poulsen Hybrid car conversion kit takes aim at X-Prize, your wallet 7 days ago at 8:48 pm
Google Reader Shared item: Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic? 8 days ago at 6:39 am
Digg: Does online video threaten the net? 16 days ago at 1:54 pm
Digg: Is Ubuntu usable enough for a non-tech-savvy girlfriend yet? 17 days ago at 4:46 pm
Facebook Status update: Duncan RIP MSN, Facebook is just so much more convenient. 22 days ago at 10:13 pm
Google Reader Shared item: 7% penetration for UK HD-DTT by 2012: report 23 days ago at 11:33 am
Picture uploaded to Zooomr: IMG_1043 31 days ago at 11:38 pm
Picture uploaded to Zooomr: Banksy on Newman st? 31 days ago at 11:38 pm
Google Reader Shared item: Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files 31 days ago at 11:06 pm
Google Reader Shared item: Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is “A Load of Bollocks” 32 days ago at 11:55 am
Bookmark from del.icio.us: Who will pay for the new web? | Telegraph.co.uk 35 days ago at 1:11 pm
Blog post: Virgin Media’s Fibre Claims 38 days ago at 2:02 am
I was thinking about putting in a complaint to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ages ago about this but didnt get around to it/couldnt be bothered! Tonight I saw Ian’s post mentioning he was considering changing to Virgin Media beacuse of the advertised fast fibre optic connection and wa...
Blog post: DS107+, my new home server 40 days ago at 1:11 am
Ten months ago I was debating what route to go down with home servers, I’ve debated this in my own head for a while and about 6 months ago briefly fired up a spare mini-itx board and a couple of drives as a home Debian based headless server. While it worked, it wasn’t quite what I had pr...
Google Reader Shared item: BitTorrent Throttling: Interview With Gemini Project 43 days ago at 4:01 pm
Google Reader Shared item: Brits go online while watching TV. Duh. 50 days ago at 11:37 pm
Google Reader Shared item: Take the Test 55 days ago at 4:14 pm
Bookmark from del.icio.us: BeebHack: Resource for re-purposing on our own terms the BBC content that we, the licence payers have paid for. 58 days ago at 12:07 pm
Google Reader Shared item: Explore Your Interactions with Google Reader 59 days ago at 2:42 pm

The above is, where available, an aggregation of my recent online activities. This is extracted from; Twitter ,Facebook, Zooomr, Del.icio.us, Digg, Google Reader and the blog on this site.