About me
I'm Graham Bleach, I live in North West London, in the United Kingdom, having recently moved there from the South Coast of England. During the day I work with computers, as a Systems Integrator, which involves setting up software to make websites work. I enjoy most marine sports, playing with computers and solving crosswords amongst other things. Basically this site is a collection of stuff related to my interests. Some of it might be useful, most of it probably isn't.
Why dark skills?
The origin of the domain name darkskills.org.uk is someone I worked with, who used to ask for my "dark BASIS skills" to help solve a problem. Anyway, in some mad rush of blood to the head I registered the domain and I think I'll keep it now. At least it's easy to remember, even if it does sound distinctly dodgy.
Stuff you'll find here
- Things related to linux, mainly little things I've found out and documented and scripts.
- Sailing stuff, with a few links.
- Things about my project to visit all the cities in the UK.
- Some of my photos.
- Books I've read or am reading.
- Diary, blog, whatever you want to call it. I think the word diary has worked fine for hundreds of years, so I'm sticking to that.
- My results and placings in triathlon and running events.
- Friends.
Site of the moment
Lachlan Gemmell is documenting his progress towards starting his own software company and producing its first product in his blog: Lachlan Gemmell - Software Startup.
Previously
- There are a lot of photographic galleries on the web. Some of them are embarrassingly bad, but most of them are much better presented than mine. 28MM is an occasional photographic magazine, cleanly presented and laid out, which showcases the work of amateur photographers. It's like megapixel.net, but a nicer design in my opinion.
- I'm on the securecoding.org mailing list and somebody mentioned this Secure Programming HOWTO for Unix/Linux.
- Freshnews is a meta-news site for people like me. The most recent headlines from the most useful technical news and discussion sites, organised cleanly on a single page.
- I don't think you'll find a wittier or more incisive take on software development than Joel on Software. Great stuff here for anyone involved in software engineering, illustrated with examples from Joel Spolsky's personal experience. A fantastic writing style helps the medicine go down. (11th Feb - 8th May 2003)
- Turn a block of text into modern-day hieroglyphics with The Hieroglypher. (28th Jan - 11th Feb 2003).
- Imaging Resource: Highlights are sample images from many digital camera models, detailed reviews, general advice and photo lessons. (3rd-28th Jan 2003)