Welcome to my home page

Yes, "home page". That's what we geeks used to have in the old days before you kids came along with your blogs and your facebooks and your flirbflarbs — back when "social networking" meant running an ethernet cable between two dorm rooms so you could play Doom against each other.

This page serves two purposes:

1. Act as a doorway leading to the corners of the web where all my various sundries live.
2. Replace the cruft that used to reside on begbie.com, much of which was terrible garbage written over ten years ago. That said, my ego can't bear the thought that this content might be erased forever, so it is persisted elsewhere.

About me

To quickly clear up any confusion, I am neither an Australian singer-songwriter, nor an Aberdonian financial manager. And I feel rather sorry for those chaps, because my prodigious online activity means I somewhat dominate the Google results for our surprisingly non-unique nomenclature.

In short, I'm a thirtysomething computer geek, originally from Scotland, now living in San Francisco, CA. If your nosiness requires more feeding, there's a brief bio and a copy of my résumé for your perusal.

Other places

If you want to see what I'm up to, your first port of call should be my blog at groovymother.com. Not only is it a readily available stream of links that have garnered my attention, it also acts as a central repository gathering some of my more interesting online activity into one convenient place.

I entrust my digital photos to the fine, fine folks at Flickr and post readily to Twitter.

Presently, my preferred social network haunts are Facebook for personal purposes, and LinkedIn for professional. Should you wish to investigate some of the code I have written, you can locate it at the good ship GitHub.

If all that doesn't sate your Begbie-related appetite, nearly every digital footprint I leave ends up on FriendFeed.

Contact

My email address is rod@arsecandle.org.

I like to use cryptography when messaging (because the only way to convince people that cryptography is used by people with nothing to hide is to use it when you have nothing to hide), so emails from me are nearly-always signed with gpg. If you want to verify my signatures, or send me an encrypted email (and I encourage you to), you can download my public key, the fingerprint of which is 3FD6 7713 47A0 DD85 C85F 9C9B 75DD EF3A 1A5F FE23.

You can also reach me by instant messenger on Jabber (or Google Talk) as, once again, rod@arsecandle.org.

Good day to you, sir.

I said, "Good day!"