User:Penddraig

Who Am I?
This is a very good Question, and one I really should answer.

Well this is my user page, a place where the egomaniac inside me can scream out to the Internet “Here I am, This is who I am!!!“ So to answer the question.

I Am A…..

CodeNinja
I wrote my first basic program (Actually using BASIC) way too many years ago to mention the date, Lets just say my first working program’s were an ASCII graphical story written on a Commodore Vic-20, and a text adventure game written on the Schools network of BBC Micros and leave it at that. Although the type of computers used should give you an idea of the time frame. In the years that followed I kept up an interest in Computers and Coding.

During my time in University doing an Electrical Engineering degree, I was introduced to Talkers and ended up as a coder for several, until finally writing my own talker base-code along with some friends. This then led to me coding a MUD for a mud-mad friend of mine.

The course I was on also had modules on “Structured Software Design”, “Computer Programming”, and my final year project was actually a network program to allow remove management of multiple systems from one place. Which is probably why, after doing an Electrical/Electronic Engineering Degree I wound up working first as a freelance web developer, and then as a Developer for an ISP.

Blogger
I have been a blogger for a lot longer than I have been aware of the word/term? Possibly longer than the Term has existed. My original website built back in 1993 on Tripod (Before a temporary move to Geocities, then onto my first Linux shell account) had a news section, which I would update every couple of days on what was going on, where I’d been, Music reviews, and similar things.

In 2005 A couple of us in the office created LiveJournal accounts so we could keep up with what our friends were doing, and so we could post random gibbering’s on-line during the slower parts of the day to try and keep us sane. This was also very much easier to update posts on than the old days of manually editing php files. Our posts covered mostly the insanity of work, random thoughts & meme’s, and what we had been up too. Including a few funny themed posts like the “ICE phone scam“. Our little community grew with some constant interactions and comments from the same group of people.

then in 2009 With the sell off of LiveJournal to a Russian businessman, and the reported rumours it was closing down (Plus the niggling voice telling me as an IT person I should have my own hosted blog) I decided to start my own self-hosted Blog using WordPress as the core system. Before I’d even finished setting up my new blog, a friend from the old LiveJournal days expressed an interest in moving away as well. After a beer fuelled discussion, we decided to have a group or community blog. So After much discussion we settled on a domain name, and the blog became a reality.

Writer
I have been an excessive reader for as long as I could remember, I love nothing more than the feelings you get from getting lost in a good book. I think as is the case of many people who grew up reading everything they could get their hands on I started imagining my own stories, they would play out in my head but I never wrote them down. I would often say “I fancy writing a book“, or the more common “I should try and write a book“. I had been planning to write something for years, I had several Ideas and projects I had started on but never really finished any of them.

Then after much gnashing of teeth and growling from friends and family, I decided why not. SO what if what I did was no good, or no one ever read them. I would at least write, so that I could say I had, and at the end it would be one less regret.

So in 2012 I published a short story in eBook format, that was downloaded over a thousand times from Amazon & other places. This eBook was followed later by another short story and a book of poetry. This was the push I needed to get myself actually doing instead of thinking. And hopefully my collection of published work should start to increase.

And just maybe I will finally finish the book of the “Insanity Test”

Poet
The first thing I recall writing that I was proud of, was a poem I wrote in school when I was 8. And since then, I will occasionally absent-mindedly doodle poems, Well I am note sure doodle is the correct word, but it feels right for what I do.

I should also admit. I am an Old Romantic, and have written poems for several past loves…

It may not be macho to admit to writing or liking poetry, but I am Welsh, I am of a race of Bard’s and Warrior-Poets, it is in my blood! as Brian Harris (kindof) wrote in “In Passing”

''To be born Welsh is to be born privileged. Not with a silver spoon in your mouth, But music in your heart and poetry in your soul.''

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Who am I? I am a person. And as a person I can not be easily be pigeon-holed into a nice labelled box. We are all many things, and these things change over time as we ourselves change. Who am i? I am A CodeNinja, A Blogger, A writer & Poet, A Freemason, A Rosicrucian, A reader, A Spod, A Son, An Uncle, A Brother, A Man, AN INDIVIDUAL!

Who am I?

I AM ME!!!

Stuff & Things to do

 * Update daniel owen stuff
 * Britain in Bloom (finish correcting date order of winners)
 * llwynenion add the historic fire and yale link
 * Blood Bikes