David and Katherine Goodwin

If you've got here, you'll hopefully know that, but for those who don't, the following things just about sum me up. By the way, they're in no particular order. If you have the desire to read a bit about my day to day life, try my blog

Mother

A new development, I'm now mummy to little Rowan, born on 20 January 2008. I'm mostly a stay at home mum, during my maternity leave - and am planning to go back part time sometime towards the end of this year. For the moment though, I don't do anything that doesn't involve Rowan, and I love it!

Wife

I've been married to David since August 2001. We met during my first couple of weeks at uni, and have been almost inseperable ever since. We share a lot of the same interests, and he's a good friend as well as a lovely husband. (Right, that's the soppy bit over and done)

Software Developer and Business Owner

Since quitting a degree in history at the beginning of what would have been my second year, I've been a computer scientist by degree. Despite the hatred of maths and AI that made my choice not to do Software Engineering, I'm a software engineer at heart. I learnt in java, which at the time I loved. These days David and I are running our own business - mostly bespoke PHP development and a fair bit of training. That's going great for us and we've got 2 full time employees.

Linux Enthusiast / Sysadmin in Training

I've been using Linux since late 1999 when David refused to help me install my java compiler. I was having troubles, and he told me to stop whinging and just use the complier on his Linux server. As my work was on a samba share, and I could still code in windows, I didn't much care. However, he slowly got me using Linux for more and more things, and I've been using it for everything but gaming for more than 4 years now, despite being considered a bit of a freak at uni.

Wannabe Chef

Cooking is one of my great passions, and as friends and LUGmembers alike will testify, my chocolate cake is nothing short of magnificent, if only on the grounds of its size and the sheer amount of chocolate used in its creation :-) Also notable, is the Xmas LUG Penguin cake Additionally, I often cook for the people at work, and like to create new and interesting low fat foods when I am behaving myself

Avid Reader / Would-be writer

Considering all the other things I want to be doing with my life, I spend far too much time reading. I devour novels at a silly pace, and even occasionally read more sensible things like popular history books and even a text book or two. From an early age I've wanted to write a novel, but despite having sat down and thought about it a few times, I don't think it will happen. I think my writing skills are better deployed trying to write some documentation for worth open source projects (see my infopoint stuff)

On/Off Failed Dieter

For the last ten or twelve years (maybe more) I've been dieting on and off. I'm bad at it, but I do enjoy exercise more than I used to. I have been very successful on one occasion, and again more recently, but the first time I moved house and broke my routine and more recently I've just lost motivation on the eating front . We're settled now, so I'm getting a good exercise routine, and a bit more discipline on the eating front should see the weight slowly slipping off.

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