About

About Josh

I work in a large Adelaide High School in South Australia as a School Support Officer managing their data supporting staff and students with complex IT issues. I enjoy what I do — which I see is making IT easier to use and understand. I am also very interested in web design. I love sharing my passions with others (maybe it validates my passions), so I blog what I find interesting.

I’m married to Camilla, and Amelynne is our beautiful daughter. Mil is fantastically wonderful in every way and I love her totally to bits. She is supportive, thoughtful, caring, creative, a terrific mother and is very sexy to boot. I really can’t express just how much of an amazing person she is, and how totally excellent it is to be married to her. You can read what I think of my daughter here.

I’m active on the web at various ‘social’ sites where I read more than I write (the web is noisy enough already). You can see the various sites that I’m a part of on my Online ID page.

About NunnOne

I’ve said I love to share my passions, and NunnOne is where I can do that. I’ve said the web is noisy, so I confine my yelling to this room of the house rather than make people listen to it. It’s just a place where I can be me, experiment with the latest technologies and share what I know with people who are interested.

Google Apps hosts my email, and that of most of my immediate family and this site is a central location for that.

About my Passions

I use a Windows 7 laptop at home and everything I use is accessed through a Firefox browser. I use Google a lot for my online life (search, word processing) ’cause I buy into their vision. I love free software ’cause I’ve gone from being a poor student to working in education, and think that it’s wonderful that people see the benefit of free tools for learning. I do pay for a couple of fantastic services that are simple, cheap and reliable though: Flickr, Drop.io, Amazon S3 and Jungledisk.

I read Fantasy, SciFi and comics— ’cause life is too short to read about every day stuff. I don’t watch much television (‘cept a few well made shows) ’cause it bores me — I prefer the net. I love super-hero movies and old sci-fi (Plan 9 anyone?) ’cause I like a spectacle as much as I like a laugh. I love anything bursting with silliness (The Muppets, Pixar, Dr Seuss, Monty Python, The Goodies etc.) ’cause growing up is hard and it takes the edge off.

I love the web ’cause it’s full of people willing to share what they know and create. I drool over new technologies ’cause I can start to imagine what life might be like in the future. I appreciate being asked about technology, ’cause I can pay forward some of what I’ve taken from others.

About this site

This site is run using Wordpress on Jumba. I create my own themes using TextMate and CSSEdit 2.

For what it’s worth, I’ve placed everything I write under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License, which means you can take it or re-use it if you say where you got it and don’t make money off it. I offer it because I believe that some things in life should be free, and my life (and this wonderful thing called the Internet) has been enriched by the good will and hard work of others.