About
My name is Jonathan Beckett. I am married to a lovely girl called Wendy, and we live in Buckinghamshire, England with our children and a cat in a big old house that we fight with continually.
I am a software developer. I spend countless hours each day bathed in the light from flat screens. I am one of the silent number who routinely conjure websites and applications from scribbled notes and the badly conceived ideas of others. In the daytime I work with technologies invented by the many headed monster from Redmond, but also dabble with open source software when I get the chance. In recent years I will admit to being seduced by the cult of the Apple Mac.
I have been writing blogs on the world wide web for a number of years. Some still exist – others have been consigned to history – contributing to the growing mass of unrecoverable material. Little trace remains of the many thousands of words that once left my fingers. In another life I designed and developed successful open source blogging and content management solutions – a life before children when I had time to create, to explore and to tinker.
The total lack of free time brought about by the entrance of children into our lives has demanded that all tinkering stop. I have become a “consumer” of the internet rather than an engineer. This blog is intended as the vessel for much of my contribution to the online community. A place through which my thoughts, ideas, opinions and observations can be found, dissected, laughed at, argued with, and ignored.
It goes without saying that I am available via email, various social networks, and most of the instant messaging platforms – the details of which can be found on the contact page.
Enjoy your time looking around, and feel free to get in touch. You will most likely find me sat on a train, stuck behind a desk, or sheltering in the dead of night from the daily fight with our children to turn them into half sensible adults.