My name is Jon Dowland, and this is my personal website.
I work for Newcastle University (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/) in the North-East of England as team leader of Computing Support, for the school of Computing Science.
Computing
I am a computer enthusiast: both hardware and software, although I am more experienced with software. I contribute to a variety of open source projects, including minor patches in Linux (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/11/151), various bits for Debian, etc. I have a separate section of the site relating to my work on software.
Personal
I could try to pigeon-hole myself here but you are better off drawing your own conclusions: have a browse around the site. The most frequently updated part of my site is my weblog. The site is biased towards computing-related stuff: I am also interested in cycling, ice skating, photography, etc.
Contacting me
You may email me at jon.qLQ9lBDT@dowland.me. I prefer cryptographically signed mail. If you do not know what that means, don't worry.
If you do, you can find my PGP key at http://subkeys.pgp.net/: the
fingerprint is FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238). I am
happy to verify this in person and do key exchanges. Apparently I am in the
Debian and Ubuntu "strong sets".
This site
What's this?
This is Jon Dowland's (my) personal website. Most of the content is related to computing, which is both a hobby and my profession.
Jonathan Michael Thomas Dowland → jmtd.
Some of the material here is for the benefit of others and some is just here as a convenient holding place for myself.
What powers this?
This site is powered by ikiwiki, a wiki "compiler" which is particularly interesting if you are a UNIX type of person.
What else?
The machine hosting this site (forelli) also hosts a number of other websites. Visit forelli.alcopop.org for the list.