Livelihood I edit the technical website of a company founded by a friend. I also work part-time as a developer writing software for the pension industry. For some years I edited my Vector, my professional association’s journal; I also served as its webmaster. I have a life-long interest in typography and typesetting, and rebuilt the journal’s production system for publishing online and in print. My main working tools are AJAX, APL, JavaScript, kdb+, PHP, q, XML, XSLT, XSL-FO.
Neighbourhood I live in North London, where I support my street association and am secretary of the local neighbourhood forum. In 2009 I was the venue manager for the Convention on Modern Liberty. In 2016 I stood as the Green Party candidate to represent Camden & Barnet in the Greater London Assembly. In the 1970s I converted to Rinzai Zen Buddhism and trained for some years. In the 1980s I trained as a psychotherapist; I do not practise.
Transport I get around on foot and by bicycle and volunteer at a monthly bike maintenance workshop. In 2012 some friends and I founded Londoners on Bikes, a pop-up campaign to make road safety an issue in the London mayoral election. When the moon is full and the weather fine I’ve been known to ride to the seaside for breakfast.
Words In the 1970s I was a performing member of Ignition Poets. Recently I typeset and printed a collection of my own verse. I write occasionally for OurKingdom. In 2016 I enrolled in the Westcountry School of Myth and Storytelling and subsequently performed at Pentameters Theatre.
So often one’s true life is the life one does not lead. Oscar Wilde
You can live two lives, but not three. Nigella Lawson
Author, barrister, jazz singer, saxophonist, therapist, typographer & printer