Hi there.

My name is Geoffrey McCaleb, and I welcome you to my tiny little corner of ether. I’ve been around the net for a while but this is (sadly) my first attempt at doing something truly interesting for myself.

Personal I write, listen to good music, travel, and drink coffee; not neccesarily in that order, and not with any varying degree of success either. I presently live in London, but I’ve had the luck to live in places like Prague, San Francisco, Dubai, and Los Angeles.

I used to be a small-time DJ playing Chillout, Trip Hop, and Lounge when I lived in Prague; nothing special mind you but it paid the bills and filled the soul.

I am married to Birsel, an amazing woman who puts up with my obsessions and many servers in the house. Also I am a former Windows user who has recently escaped to Linux. The air over here is nice by the way.

Professional

I have worked within the IT industry for over 10 years now. I used to code, until I came to the startling realisation that I was a terrible developer. It took me about a week to come to this epiphany if memory serves. Now, I help design content management platforms using tools like Documentum and Vignette. I also keep my eye on Open Source tools, but it will be years until the Corporate Space trusts an Open Source product for their content (if ever).

Currently I’m looking into collaboration tools like eRoom and Groove.

Geek

Hacked my first server when I was 12. Insted of building on that and becoming a co-founder of Netscape, I decided to just use the experience as an annoying annecdote at parties. First experience with ARPANET at 10. First home PC at 14 (TI 99/4a). First program in BASIC at 15. First experience with the Internet at 23.

I’m a happy iPod mini owner, but there are days when I miss my brick, the Archos Jukebox which I bought back in 2000. My entire music collection is digital, a mix between AAC and MP3. But I yearn for the day when the iPod supports Ogg.