This is my personal site, with information about me, my projects and anything else I think might be useful to addd to the web.
If you want to get in touch since I deleted a social media account go here!
If you want to talk work, check out my GitHub profile or LinkedIn profile
I’m Simon, a 30-something technologist, living on the edge of the North Cotswolds.
I work for Microsoft UK in Reading as a Senior Technical Consultant, helping my customers undertake transformative Modern Work projects.
I attended The Henley College where my studies gained me a scholarship to The University of Reading where I studied (and loved) Computer Science (BSc), graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in 2013. My dissertation was published as part of ICDVRAT 2014, Speech Development and Therapy Using the Kinect.
My life long passion is to take the world apart and see how it works – especially where I can put it back together better than it ever was.
I am not the most reliable of bloggers, but when I find something out I couldn’t solve on the web, I like to add it to my blog in the hope it will help someone else.
Welcome to my space, and feel free to reach out to me if you think there is something I can help with, work or personal.
Welcome to my new website.
If your Cloud Key doesn’t gracefully shut down anymore, the Li-Ion battery inside may be swollen like mine was.
Not a long post, but something I found little reference to.
Recently, I gained my foundation amateur radio licence with the help of the fantastic Reading & District Amateur Radio Club. Their course was practical and not too formal, with a great sense of what was required, and what was “required hoop jumping”.
Looking back, it has been nearly a year since my last internship post – a long time if anyone actually reads this blog or a heartbeat for the fast paced world of the internet.
For longer than I can remember I have been a GMail user. Initially I was scared of it – putting all my mail on the web seemed like a crazy plan, but eventually I signed up and dropped by ISP’s email account for a GMail address. Ever since, I have happily enjoyed my email anywhere, labeling and archive, a host of free space and even piece of mind offered by two factor authentication. I have seen no reason whatsoever to doubt my decisions, until news broke last night that Google were planning to drop EAS support for Individual GMail accounts (http://www.wpcentral.com/google-drops-exchange-activesync-what-s-it-mean-windows-phone).
While at the local supermarket, I happened upon a reduced, but brand new in box, Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard. For a few quid, I was not one to argue and gleefully stuffed it into my trolley, After all the Tesco value keyboard I had been using was well past its hygienic and useful life.
So, you might ask – assuming anyone actually reads this , why on earth have you not blogged for nearly a month ?
I write this blog post from my kitchen table on a Friday morning, while the weather outside is attempting to break through into sunshine. I wish that this was the start of a post about some relaxing time off, but alas, I am working from home due a cold/flu/man-flu of some variety – and I have been here all week, mostly for comfort – but also at the mercy of my co-workers good health.
OK, first things first. I will admit I am writing this blog 2 weeks late – not sure how or why I ended up overlooking it for two Fridays in a row but that’s another concern.
A case I have been working on has highlighted to me just how little information there is about this rather useful knowlegebase article – so i decided I would quickly knock something up to make sure I can remember next time this little solution is needed.
So this week I feel I have actually started doing something worthwhile – I have started solving customer cases!
So now I have been told by my friends, university, and manager – I suppose its about time to start writing to some kind of journal – so I figured if I was going to idly bash keys, it might as well be immortalised online for all to see.
When I found myself gazing at the news during lunch the other day, my attention was suddenly caught by the announcement of an iPhone application which can tell you about the crime history of your current location.