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Media: CAT; R4; R4 comedy; Today prog; Newsnight; Daily Show guests; NYT GenLink
Travel: TfL simply; MyTTC; TTC

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My day job is as a security developer at FreshBooks, a fine firm full of friendly folk. I'm professionally not evil.
I have a first class MEng degree in Computing from Imperial College. I returned for my PhD in performance modelling under Prof. Pete Harrison as part of the AESOP group, followed by three years in research and teaching in the department.
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.
- 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
  - 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.
News
Funny stuff
- A random joke from the 'Best of' rec.humor.funny.