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My day job is at FreshBooks, a fine firm full of friendly folk.
I graduated with a first class degree in Computing from Imperial College in July 2001. I returned for my PhD in stochastic modelling under Prof. Pete Harrison as part of the AESOP group, then stayed as a post-doc researcher for two years, then as a teaching associate in the department for another year.
fivehops.org do some pretty good stuff, but I wish we all had more time.
feedmytv is a project to make an open, extensible but easy to use set-top box running on commodity hardware and getting the content from a variety of sources.
fuckwittage·org, my shot across the bows of fuckwits everywhere.
notcontrary.com is my beautiful wife's site.

Alternatively, some other things that interest me - which I use to get about each day.

Web Seeky - searching et al
- Googling obviously - but what about Googlewhacking or the Google Dance?
- AllTheWeb
- Teoma
- archive.org - like Google's cache on steroids. Fantastic for tracking how people's privacy policies change, comparing what happens to a previously clever company after the marketroids land, and so forth.
- Miscellaneous fact/idea-tastic sites
  - Halfbakery
  - The real Hitch-hiker's Guide - not quite so funky since the move to the BBC, but at least it still has a pulse.
  - Everything2
Web development
- W3C - mmmm, tasty standards goodness.
- HTML Help including a decent spidering validator.
- CSS Pointers - Cascading Style Sheets, go on just suggest how you want it to look.
- CodeStyle.org including a fantastic CSS font survey of what fonts might be found on how many Windows, Mac or Unix boxes.
- W3Schools - a variety of tutorials for people learning web stuff. Their CSS tutorials are especially useful - simple to follow and quite well written.
- Jakob Nielsen's useit.com is generally decent stuff about usability, although for me it focusses a little too much on e-commerce applications, rather than the wider Web.
- My own guide to Writing Web services (from info.future-i.com).
- My general rants on dopey Web development, web·fuckwittage.
- A nice, strongly worded list of rules from a guy doing maths at TCD.
- Apache web server
  - Apache Week
  - Apache Today
- PostgreSQL relational database (since I can no longer develop a half-decent web site without a database behind it).
  - Interactive Documentation
  - Reserved words for when I'm data modelling.
Semantic Web
- SchemaWeb - fantastic resource for finding people's ontologies. Far better than everyone rolling their own independently.
Security
- Bruce Schneier - excellent researcher and writer on security matters, has a blog worth following.
Typesetting in LaTeX
- CTAN - the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network.
- The UK TUG's quite thorough FAQ.
- eng.cam.ac.uk page
- LaTeX tips, especially the top ten common mistakes list.
- Lovely, simple introduction from Donald Ballance at gla.ac.uk.
- chktex, a semantic checker for TeX.
Entertainment
- Tv
  - News / yak
    - digital spy
    - TV without pity - fun (& obsessive) recaps of various shows
  - Listings
    - Calendar for Tv
    - Bleb's listings, which are graciously available in a structured form too
    - DigiGuide
    - RadioTimes
    - Cable Guide
    - Scene One
    - Freeserve listings
    - Ananova - including a fairly structured feed
    - Ed Avis' XMLTV - a co-ordinated effort to get listings into a common format. There are grabbers/sources for various countries now. (Cheers to Ed for acquiring the structured feed link from Ananova too)
  - Episode guides - from epguides.com now that TV.com have buried TvTome's more useful features.
    - Smallville
    - Buffy
    - Angel
    - Tru Calling
    - Battlestar Galactica (the new one, not the original)
    - Stargate SG-1
    - Stargate Atlantis
    - Star Trek: Enterprise
    - Star Wars : Clone Wars
    - The X Files
    - Alias
    - Jeremiah
    - ER
    - 24
    - The Sopranos
    - Six Feet Under
    - Desperate Housewives
    - Sex and the City
    - Ally McBeal
    - Will and Grace
    - Friends, plus transcripts on theCFSI [UK Mirror]
- Film
  - Cinema listings (Cineworld-heavy because I have one of their Unlimited cards)
    - Cineworld Fulham Road
    - Cineworld King's Road
    - Cineworld Trocadero
    - Cineworld Haymarket
    - National Film Theatre - because it's good
    - BFI IMAX - because it's funky
  - Sky is Falling, handy UK movie site with news, stats and most usefully release dates.
  - DVDCompare.net do a good line in comparing which is the best edition of a film to buy (extras, cut of the film &c). Not that we've all got multi-region DVD players, of course. Or that the whole region scheme is entirely unworkable and invasive.
  - Ain't it cool news
  - Another personal pet - films·future-i·com.
- Music
  - Current folk
    - Amos Lee
    - Eric Bibb
    - Jewel
    - Mishka Adams
    - Amy Winehouse
    - Bellissima^{[myspace warning]}
    - Oliver Darley
Family
- Zarina Katwala, my niece
- Sunder Katwala
- Mary Argent-Katwala
- Mary Argent, Mary's Mum; my mother-in-law
Friends about the place, pretty much all really smart technically with extra friendly goodness
- Chris Jackson
- Ongar Towers, (ex-)home to the rich and famous
- David M. Turner's figroll.com
- Tom & co. lead somewhat pointless lives, they claim
- James Bywater
- Paddy Atherstone
- Etienne Pollard
- Jeff Davis
- Martin Coxall, pretty ranty, but all good fun.
Travel
- Flights
  - Kayak flights
  - SkyScanner - flight price comparison with funky whole-month-cheapest-fares bar graph
- Friendly places to stay
  - Forwood Family Villas, Moraira, Costa Blanca, Spain.
  - Casa Almendras, Moraira.
  - Amberley Hotel, Andover, Hampshire (urgh to the flash-tastic site; but it's a friendly place to stay).
News
Funny stuff
- A random joke from the 'Best of' rec.humor.funny.