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Education
I'm a Year 0 student at University of Durham. I'm doing a Foundation Degree this year, and then I'm progressing to a BSc Software Engineering degree.

Work
I'm CTO / Head of Infrastructure and Network Services for Rocket Dog Creative. As part of that job, I'm also responsible for www.minilog.com/, an online journalling community based on the LiveJournal Server software.

What I've done for LJ in the past
In February 2001 I decided that I wanted to do something to contribute towards LiveJournal - so I started helping out in LiveJournal's support department. I learned a lot about LiveJournal in there... also I updated one or two of LiveJournal's FAQs when they got out of date.

After that I didn't do a lot, until I decided to re-do the style of my journal... so I redid my journal, and saw it and said it was really cool and that it should go "public" so that everyone could use it. You can read more about the launch of Refried Paper (what I decided to call my style) here.

I also helped out with the creation of the LiveJournal Text Messaging service, which is now maintained somewhat neglected by me and Eric Carr