About me
Hey there, I'm Joe ST. I spend most of my free time reading, listening to music, and surfing the web.
I love reading Fantasy and Science Fiction, it allows me to escape the mortal realm. I especially like Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Otherland by Tad Williams, the Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson and books by Peter F. Hamilton and Alistair Reynolds. I have a public listing on LibraryThing. I read and follow far too many web-comics. A relatively up-to-date list is of them all here.
I've played my fair share of video games in the past too, with fond memories of Crash Bandicoot (and Crash Team Racing), Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy (IX), SimCity, Portal and others. I have a Steam account.
I listen to many different genre's of music, including rock & metal, classical and some alternative branches. I have an extensive (but not exhaustive) public listing on last.fm. I have played the double bass sporadically for a number of year. I played for the Westmoreland Youth Orhcestra and a couple of the University of Lancaster Music Society orhestra's
I'm an avid programmer, with experience in C (and embedded), PHP, HTML-CSS-Javascript, MySQL, bash, Java/C# and Python. I am willing to learn new programming languages to fit any job, and have had experience with both legacy and newly specified codebases. I know how to use Visual Studio, Eclipse and can quite easily program in vim and numerous other text editors or IDEs. You can find any code I have rememberd to publish here.
I use Arch Linux as my primary opperating system and am familiar with most major Linux distros and Microsoft OS's. I have run numerous personal servers and compiled customized codebases for optimized uses, including the Linux kernel.
