Ok, so you want to know about me?
I work in the IT industry, and have done for over twenty years. I’ve been a computer geek so long, I can’t imagine life without my fingers on a keyboard.
During my career, I’ve been involved in the design, development, and testing of large-scale commercial software applications. I now specialise mainly in testing, and create and curate interesting content about software development and testing over at brianheystesting.com.
I like apples with a leaf on the stalk, freshly washed strawberries, warm samosas on a Thursday morning, expired film, The Yardbirds, The Small Faces, The Who, The Kinks, sunny Monday mornings with no traffic holdups, Friday afternoons, milky tea, my chilli plant, Ainsley Harriott cup soups, masala tea, Oreos, waking in Venice to the sound of church bells, the scent of jasmine on a warm Italian breeze, Tunnocks Teacakes, thin cut marmalade, egg butties with white pepper, fish and chips, Upstairs Downstairs, shiny shoes, stripy shirts, and bananas.
This blog
This is my personal blog. I don’t really have a posting schedule, but I try to update once or twice a week. Having said that, I sometimes go a week, or even two without posting, so don’t panic if I seem to disappear.
(I once disappeared for two months.)
The blog is hosted by Media Temple, proudly powered by WordPress, and uses the Sandbox 1.6.1 theme tweaked with my own hand-crafted custom CSS. The graphics were created with Inkscape and Photoshop.
Find me elsewhere on the web
I’m only active on a handful of social networks. I enjoy the ones I do participate in, and feel I’d be spreading myself too thinly if I tried to do more. Feel free to connect with me on Twitter, Facebook or flickr.
