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About Me

My name is David Jones, and I'm a simple 25 year old male, living in Blackbird Leys, Oxford. I'm also a software engineer and enthusiastically lazy.

I started reading Software Engineering at The University of Hull, and successfully dropped out to join CatchWord Ltd in September 2000. From there, I was recruited into the Linking Team, learned Perl from books and am now the man you see today.

About My Work

I work in the MetaData Team under the umbrella of the Engineering Dept for Ingenta UK Ltd. I am responsible for the distribution of content to 3rd Parties, and also help out with the linking systems which allow people to click on references in fulltexts and go somewhere. I used to program primarily in Perl, but am now branching out into Java.

My Interests

I am interested in many things. Some are geeky. Some are cool. Some are just plain stupid.

• Chocolate
• Cars
• Motorbikes
• Computers
• Programming
  • Perl
  • C++
  • Assembly
  • Data structures and other crazy things (trees, linked lists, hashing, etc)
• Radio controlled/Self-propellings model things like
  • Planes
  • Helicopters
  • Cars
  • Rockets
• Snowboarding
• Space
• ..