From: Penny Leach <penny@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:14:59 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: changes to about page
X-Git-Url: http://git.mjollnir.org/gw?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e0046c8110555fbb57dabb12009b3f2b02fa7b6c;p=s9y.git

changes to about page
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diff --git a/include/about.inc.php b/include/about.inc.php
index d2d00f9..c0be0e7 100644
--- a/include/about.inc.php
+++ b/include/about.inc.php
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ $serendipity['smarty']->assign('content_message','
 <h3 class="serendipity_date">about</h3>
 <p>A long list of not very interesting facts about me, in no particular order:</p>
 <ul>
-<li>I live in Wellington, New Zealand</li>
+<li>I live in London.  I don\'t like it much, and next year hope to live somewhere in Europe.  Hire me to come do your e-learning stuff!</li>
 <li>I was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on the 19th of April, 1980</li>
-<li>I work at <a href="http://catalyst.net.nz">Catalyst IT</a></li>
-<li>As a dirty, dirty nerd</li>
+<li>Most of my life, and up until very recently, I lived in Wellington, New Zealand.  I identify very strongly as a New Zealander.</li>
+<li>I work at <a href="http://catalyst.net.nz">Catalyst IT</a>.  My focus is open source in Education, particularly e-learning. I\'ve been a <a href="http://moodle.org">Moodle</a> developer since mid 2004, and a <a href="http://mahara.org">Mahara</a> developer since its inception.</li>
 <li>I feel the cold, and love electric blankets, heaters, and fires</li>
 <li>I like <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a> a whole lot</li>
-<li>I have a cat called Nothing, named after a character in a book I read when I was 16</li>
+<li>I prefer command line interfaces to graphical ones. Really the only graphical UI I use now is a browser.  I often make scathing remarks about pointyclicky interfaces.</li>
+<li>I am one of those annoying outspoken version control system people. I like git.</li>
+<li>I have a cat called Nothing, named after a character in a book I read when I was 16.  She\'s still in Wellington.</li>
 <li>I like my mail to arrive at least digitally signed</li>
 <li>I fight the urge to write an \'email etiquette\' article and point people to it frequently.  One day I\'m sure this will happen though as people who breach email etiquette make me grind my teeth with rage.  To summarise:
 <ul>
@@ -25,15 +27,13 @@ $serendipity['smarty']->assign('content_message','
 <li>I have visible tattoos and piercings</li>
 <li>I greatly prefer postgres to mysql</li>
 <li>One thing that makes me really, really happy is to wake up in the morning after a storm, and have From the Edge of The Deep Green Sea by The Cure stuck in my head</li>
-<li>Mac hardware == hottt. I am a macwhore</li>
-<li>I like Open Source. Right now I am interested in <a href="http://moodle.org">Moodle</a>, <a href="http://mahara.org">Mahara</a>, and <a href="http://eduforge.org">Eduforge</a>, and am trying to find time to be more interested in <a href="http://debian.org">Debian</a></li>
 <li>I am generally reading about 4 or 5 books at any given time</li>
 <li>My parents are both archaeologists, I grew up with weird artefacts in my house that my friends laughed at</li>
 <li>I went to boarding school, and I hated it</li>
 <li>I was vegan for a year and a half, and vegetarian on-and-off for about 5. Now I am a shameless meatmouth</li>
 <li>I make clothes and jewellery</li>
 <li>Spelling errors get me really embarrassed</li>
-<li>I generally play at least 3 games of foosball every day. I prefer to play attack</li>
+<li>I am a foosball shark</li>
 <li>I try and convince everyone I know that they should install Linux, preferably Debian</li>
 <li>Which often means I end up being a one-woman helpdesk</li>
 <li>My favourite books are Still Life with Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins, and Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami</li>
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ $serendipity['smarty']->assign('content_message','
 <li>(Obviously) I like lists</li>
 <li>This website is based on <a href="http://s9y.org">Serendipity</a> which I track with <a href="http://git.or.cz/">git</a></li>
 <li>I have trouble staying on chairs and often find myself falling off and causing an avalanche of headphones, keyboards and mice that fall with me from my desk</li>
-<li>I am caf&eacute; and bar loyal, but it changes.  Right now it\'s <a href="http://www.mojocoffeecartel.com">Mojo</a> and <a href="http://mattherhorn.co.nz">Matterhorn</a></li>
+<li>I am caf&eacute; and bar loyal, but it changes.  In Wellington it was <a href="http://www.mojocoffeecartel.com">Mojo</a> and <a href="http://mattherhorn.co.nz">Matterhorn</a>.  I have not found London equivalents.</li>
 <li>I drink far too much coffee, someone I work with describes me as \'gritty\' after too many coffees</li>
 <li>I <i>do not</i> like it when people end a parenthesised sentence with a smiley face (like this ;)</li>
 </ul>