User Profile

My name is Jonathan Beckett. I am married to a lovely girl called Wendy, and we live in Buckinghamshire, England with our children and a cat in a big old house that we fight with continually.

I am a software developer. I spend countless hours each day bathed in the light from flat screens. I am one of the silent number who routinely conjure websites and applications from scribbled notes and the badly conceived ideas of others. In the daytime I work with technologies invented by the many headed monster from Redmond, but also dabble with open source software when I get the chance. In recent years I will admit to being seduced by the cult of the Apple Mac.

I have been writing blogs on the world wide web for a number of years. Some still exist - others have been consigned to history - contributing to the growing mass of unrecoverable material. Little trace remains of the many thousands of words that once left my fingers. In another life I designed and developed successful open source blogging and content management solutions - a life before children when I had time to create, to explore and to tinker.

I love drawing and photographing people, but finding the time to do so is a struggle. Writing a blog keeps me sane, and finding somewhere quiet to sit and read is increasingly difficult in a manic life. Social networks have become a vice, and chocolate as ever will undo me.

Note - most of my journal posts within LiveJournal are cross-posted from my "real" blog at Wordpress - Life and Times - where I have written for a very long time indeed. Photos tend to come from Flickr too.

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