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About Hamfisted

Hamfisted is my personal site, where I can mess around with all kinds of silly stuff, like web news links, picture galleries, bits of writing, reviews, tech tips and even an online journal. I also use it to play with site code.

The first iteration of this site was called Recycled News, since about the only thing I ever posted was news taken from other websites. I got a little bit more creative with the next version, H-Filter, but the constant questions from microfluidic scientists wore me down. So I finally settled on Hamfisted, because it sounds naughty.

• Page scripts written in PHP by yours truly
• Backend database is MySQL
• Pages done in XHTML 1.0 Strict, for maximum flavour and freshness

About Me

Yep, I'm a bit of a cliche. A programmer with a website who likes videogames, movies and sci-fi and fantasy books. What a huge surprise. I do have other interests that break the nerdboy mold though, such as travel, rugby, music, architecture, rugby and fitness. Yes, rugby was mentioned twice. Since I was born in New Zealand, the rules of the game are coded into my body at a cellular level.

Although I was born in NZ, I grew up in Australia, on the beautiful Gold Coast. I worked for a number of years in Brisbane, then spent two and a half years living and working in London, in the UK. Then I tried life in Canada, living in Vancouver for about the same period of time. I'm now back in Australia, trying life out in Sydney.

Workwise, most of my programming work has been web stuff, both Open Source and with Microsoft web products, although I have done a fair bit of Windows application development as well. I worked for an advertising company in Vancouver, which means I qualify for New Media jobs as well. It's not curing cancer or rubbing hot oil into the buttocks of supermodels, but it pays the bills.

If you want to ask me a question, send through a cool news link or just say hi, you can reach me at these email addresses:

In case you're wondering why those two email addresses are shown as an image, it's to thwart the evil spam spiders.