OneAndOneIs2

Apparently it's obligatory for blogs to have these things these days...

So: Me, the person who writes this blog

Name: Dominic Humphries
Born: 26 February 1977
Live: West Sussex, England
Past: Born in Ashford, Kent
      Moved to Saudi Arabia when I was 2
      Moved back to Ashford when I was 5
      Moved to Kent a few years later
      Failed my Eleven-Plus
      Got my 11+ condoned and went to a grammar school
      Left school with A-levels in Maths, Biology and Chemistry
      Went to a university to do Applied Biochemistry
      Left university with a BSc(hons) in 1999
      Got a job with a pharmaceutical company
      Moved in with my g/f of the time
      After 8 years at the company, quit to try teaching
      Split up with g/f
      Met next g/f via our blogs
      Quit the PGCE teacher training course
      Split up with g/f
      Lacking better ideas, went on a trip round Europe
      Came back
      Realised I was suffering from depression
      Prescribed Prozac, refused to take it
      Moved near Worthing to rent a room from my best friend
      Got a job invigilating at the local school
      Finished invigilating, worked in LA as a web developer for a while
      Came back from LA, got a job as a programmer
      Got a motorbike to make the commute more bearable
      And so life goes on...

Well, that seems to cover a lot of the basics...

This is "geekblog" because I tried keeping 'normal' blogs before and got nowhere, so stopped trying to be normal and started to just write whatever I was interested in and to hell with whether readers liked it or not. As a result, I've been on the front page of digg and del.icio.us several times

It's "oneandoneis2" because that name came to mind when I needed a unique username once and has since stuck.

I have a deep and abiding fondness for Linux; the command line; vi; C; Firefox; kit cars. I have an equally deep and abiding hatred for any software, device or machine that tries to be helpful and do things for me.

My life goals include going back to university to do a couple more degrees; building a couple of kit cars; setting up a metalworking workshop; writing a book; learning to program; building a PC with 100% working open-source Linux drivers.

I'm 6'4". Most people are surprised to learn I can dance. People have a strange tendency to trust me even before they've met me face-to-face. I'm currently single and happy that way.

And that, I think, is enough to be going on with...