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Hello. Since you're here, you're probably either a spider trawling my site, or you're interested in finding out a bit more about me. Statistically you're more likely to be the former, but on the offchance the latter supposition is correct:

My name is Chris Whitworth. Because of some heinous crime I committed in a past life, I was born in Ipswich, in June 1979. In the intervening years, I lived in Suffolk, Nottinghamshire and Norfolk (where my family still reside); these days, though, I live in Manchester. As cities go, I guess it's not too bad, but I'd much rather be able to look out of my bedroom window and see fields and cows and things rather than a block of flats.

I've got a degree in Computer Science from Manchester University, despite life's best attempts to throw me completely out of whack right at the beginning of my third year. My attempt to follow this up with a Masters in Optical Computing was somewhat less successful (a combination of two factors: my total, complete lack of interest in my research area, and the realisation that I'd done nothing for 9 months except write programs to get round bugs in other people's programs and drink an awful lot of tea) and so shortly before I should have been handing in my thesis I jacked it in and ended up at my last job, as a games programmer. I gave that up in November 2004, and started work developing binary translation software. Frankly, I could have done a lot worse.

I'm not single, although I am quite bitter, and if you're buying, that's what I'll have a pint of, ta.

50 things you didn't ask to know about me

this site

This site runs entirely on hand-crufted perl scripts, bodged together over several years and an even larger number of iterations. It's hosted on a Linux server running some version or other of Apache and MySQL which so far seems pretty reliable and stuff.

The pages are all dynamically generated, and, assuming I don't do anything stupid in any of the entries, are valid XHTML/1.0 (Strict) and CSS2.0.

A couple of people have asked me if they can have a copy of the source for my journalling software, and at some point I'll get round to packaging it up in a sensible way (and eliminating any obvious holes). Please be patient.

It may or may not end up being rewritten in Ruby one day, anyway.