{"id":109,"date":"2014-07-29T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simon.aldrich.eu\/blog\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2017-04-13T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:22:20","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Simon Aldrich. I&#8217;m a Software Engineer based out of Bristol in the UK. I spend my workdays writing the software that drives the core of mobile-phone networks. Chances are, wherever you&#8217;re from, if you&#8217;ve got a mobile phone you&#8217;ve indirectly used my software.<\/p>\n<h2>The techie stuff<\/h2>\n<p>Most of the software I write for work\u00a0 (and outside of work too) is written in C or C++ on Linux. For work it has to be fast &amp; it has to be unbreakable. I&#8217;ve also been known to dabble in Perl &amp; Bash when the need arises.<\/p>\n<p>As a geek I am fascinated by Home Automation &amp; also endlessly in pursuit of the perfect Media Centre. I&#8217;m a big fan of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/desktop\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu<\/a> is my flavour of choice)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kodi.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kodi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asterisk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asterisk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Someday I hope to achieve the state of geek nirvana where all the disparate systems in my life work together in perfectly &amp; seamless harmony to enhance my existence. I am also resigned to the fact that this will never happen &#8211; there&#8217;s always one more thing.<\/p>\n<h2>Offline<\/h2>\n<p><abbr title=\"In real life\">IRL<\/abbr> I&#8217;m fantastically lucky to be married to the very beautiful, talented &amp; patient Katy (she has to put up with a lot of nerdy stuff). We&#8217;re also the very proud parents of Ben. Katy &amp; I met at Bristol University &amp; we&#8217;ve been lucky enough to be able to live, work &amp; start our family in the city that we love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Simon Aldrich. I&#8217;m a Software Engineer based out of Bristol in the UK. I spend my workdays writing the software that drives the core of mobile-phone networks. Chances are, wherever you&#8217;re from, if you&#8217;ve got a mobile phone you&#8217;ve indirectly used my software. The techie stuff Most of the software I write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Rw4E-1L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}