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Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff
Times are bad, children no longer obey their parents and everyone's got a blog
Permanent Account, Created on 7 April 2002 (#520396), Last updated on 15 May 2013
- Name:
- Simon Bisson
- Birthdate:
- 21 December 1965
- Location:
- Putney, London, United Kingdom
- Website:
- The Bleeding Edge Of Technology
- External Services:
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- simon@sandm.co.uk
- Simon Bisson
- sbisson
- sbisson@livejournal.com
- simonbuk
- sbisson
- sbisson@jabber.org
- sbisson
- sbisson
- sbisson
- Schools:
- Colomberie House School - St Helier, Jersey, Crown Dependencies - Channel Islands, United Kingdom (1968 - 1970)Val Plaisant School - St Helier, Jersey, Crown Dependencies - Channel Islands, United Kingdom (1970 - 1972)St Lawrence's School - St Lawrence, Jersey, Crown Dependencies - Channel Islands, United Kingdom (1972 - 1974)Victoria College Preparatory School - St Helier, Jersey, Crown Dependencies - Channel Islands, United Kingdom (1974 - 1977)Victoria College - St Helier, Jersey, Crown Dependencies - Channel Islands, United Kingdom (1977 - 1984)University of Bath - Bath, England - Somerset, United Kingdom (1984 - 1989)
- Interests: (150)
- ambient, ambient computing, ammonites, anime, apple, application development advisor, aquablue, art of trance, asp.net, astralasia, augmented reality, bandes dessinées, bay area, bd, bermuda, blogging, bluetooth, boards of canada, boing boing, bone, books, brian eno, bruce sterling, bryan talbot, cat and girl, cats, channel islands, chicane, china mieville, chocolate, chris moore, cold comfort farm, comic art, comics, computer journalism, computers, context computing, cthulhu, digicams, electronic music, exotic tea, fantasy, farmers' markets, flickr, food, fred gambino, freelance consulting, freelance writing, fsol, full metal alchemist, futurama, gaming, good food, good restaurants, gourmet, gprs, high weirdness, howard waldrop, ignatz, intelligence amplification, ipod, islands, it journalism, it strategy consulting, java, jerriais, jersey, jim burns, journalism, kea, krazy kat, lamp, lanzarote, last exile, lava lamps, lego, linn, loisel, london, loop guru, m john harrison, macintosh, maine coons, manga, marillion, megatokyo, mice, michael swanwick, mobile computing, mobile internet, mountains, nanotechnology, new zealand, next generation computing, organic food, philip glass, philip pullman, photography, php, platipus records, pokethulu, porcupine tree, post-cyberpunk, prefab sprout, prog rock, pukeko, putney, range murata, rdf, robots, rpgs, rss, science fiction, science fiction art, scranletting ticklepenny corner, seattle, sf, sf art, sf books, silicon valley, soa, studio ghibli, superfluous technology, sushi, system 7, tablet pc, takahe, technology journalism, terra ferma, the archers, the guardian, the kleptones, the singularity, the spike, thomas dolby, transmetropolitan, trilobites, two-full-moons and a trout, ubicomp, vernor vinge, virtualisation, walter jon williams, water, whole earth review, wifi, windows vista, writing sf, xml, xslt, yosemite
- Bio
- Geek, technology journalist, IT strategy consultant, Sf reader (and occasional writer), traveler (not tourist), book and art collector.
Born on the Channel Island of Jersey, I now live in South West London, sharing The East Putney Museum Of Science Fiction, Comic and Fantasy Art (And Lending Library) with my wife,
marypcb, four cats and two robots.
I write fiction and non-fiction for magazines, web sites and newspapers with pieces in The Register, The Guardian and the Financial Times, andmarypcb and I run a blog at ZDnet UK.
Other titles I write for include ZDnet UK, Web Designer, Cloud Pro, Know Your Mobile, Grey Matter's Hardcopy, the Official Windows XP Magazine, IT Pro, IT Expert, Tom's Hardware and The Register. Commissions welcome. Email for rates. Email for commercial rates for white papers and commercial articles.
With my consulting hat on, I'm available to work short projects as a consulting systems architect specialising in enterprise web and mobile internet. I also offer IT strategy services, helping businesses understand how technology can help them meet their business aims. Email for rates.
Mission Statement
This blog is a site for thinking aloud about technology, books and other neat stuff. In other words, whatever I feel like at the time. Oh, and occasional snippets of fiction as the mood takes me. I also use it to post photographs, and to detail my travels.
Other Blogs From The Same Keyboard
My main alternate is a shared techblog, "500 Words Into The Future" at ZDnet UK. Mary and I regularly talk about all aspects of IT, and update at least twice a week. We've syndicated it here as
500wordsrss
That's pretty much taken over from our old IT Pro blog and from A New IT World, where I looked at the impact of new technologies on the world of enterprise IT. If you're interested in service architectures, loosely coupled applications, virtualisation, serialisation, network storage and network processing then this is the place for you. It's syndicated on LiveJournal asitphasechange.
I also have a fairly moribund moblog/art project called "Watching The Watchers" (syndicated assbisson_moblog) which I use for pictures of CCTV and other surveillance cameras. The project's not really being updated these days, and I'm considering moving it over to a Flickr group...
I am experimenting with del.icio.us and have syndicated my links page RSS feed assbisson_links.
I also have a Flickr photostream atsbisson_flickr
I have a LibraryThing account. You can see my catalogue here.
You may find other blogs that I use, but they're mainly test sites for magazine articles I'll have been working on.
If you use Twitter, then you'll find me there as sbisson. I'm also to be found on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Friending Policy
I rarely post "friends-only" entries. If I do, they tend to be either details of family emergencies or (probably more interesting to most of you) complete pieces of writing that has either been published elsewhere, or are near final draft pieces of fiction that are nearly ready for submission.
If you use an LJ account to friend me, I'll generally friend back fairly quickly. I tend to treat my friends list as a reading list. If you're there, I'm reading what you write. My non-LJ reading list is on Google Reader, feel free to look it up!
Commenting-only accounts are welcome. Feel free to introduce yourself!
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RSS
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License
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Any assigned license will revert if content is used on a spam blog.
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Images and quoted text may be licensed by original authors under different schemes.
My own images are hosted on Flickr, and have Creative Commons licenses managed through the hosting service. They are also available for commercial purchase. Contact me directly or use the Flickr/Getty Images tools.