Just another incarnation of my web site

My name is 'nic' (Nicolas James Doye), I am 38 , married, male, vegetarian (ex- vegan), childhood cancer survivor and father of two. I enjoy cycling, and have recently taken up running (very slowly).

Work:

I am a coder/escaped sysadmin. During the daytime, I work as a Reporting Systems Engineer at Ericsson. Obviously, I don't speak for them, etc.

Politics:

I am no longer a member of any political party. I am a bit of an environmentalist, a bit on the left-wing side, and I support Make Votes Count because "one 'man' one vote" should mean something.

Ethics:

I try an buy organic and fair trade food when possible. I boycott some evil corporations and choose the nicer ones (like the co-op banks, shops, etc.). Oh, also Make Trade Fair and Make Poverty History - now! I support Oxfam as they support these movements and do great work.

Digital Freedom:

I believe in Free Software (sometimes called 'Software Libre'). I believe in the rights to copy and back-up my own CDs, DVDs, etc. so I support the EFF. So-called "CDs" which can not play in a computer, DVD player or car stereo are useless. So called encryption schemes for DVDs are doubly so. I am against software-patents as they help no-one.

Geekery:

My RHCE (in RHEL3) has now expired. I use Ubuntu on the desktop, Red Hat/ CentOS and SUSE on servers. I like Perl, Java, Groovy, Grails, PostgreSQL, Derby and Oracle. Check out Tomcat, JBoss and Glassfish.

Ordinary:

I'm really just an ordinary bloke. I'm not as nice, dull or serious as the above might suggest. I'm also human - I don't live up to my own standards. Oh well,... :-)