Who?

• Alastair Porter
• BCMS Hons (First Class), WaikatoUniversity
• Used to live in Morrinsville and attend Morrinsville College
• Spent an extra year as a LazyStudent studying towards a BMus at the NZ School of Music
• Gave up on studying for a while and got a job with Metservice
• Frequents #wlug with the Nick alastair

Music

• Have played the Trombone for a great number of years (I'm quite good, you know)
• Proud recipient of an ATCL (Recital) Diploma

• I used to play with

  • Waikato Symphony Orchestra
  • Hamilton Big Band (as well as Musical Director)

• I currently play with

  • Wellington Bone Company

Linux

• I run Ubuntu. GNOME. etc. Desktop Linux is quite nice. You should try it some time.
• Server Linux is also quite nice, you should try it some time.

Projects

• Worked on the Aym UnitTesting framework with GianPerrone, before I knew what unit testing was
• Once upon a time worked on bluefish
• I provide MetaData and sometimes code for the musicbrainz project
• More things on Git Hub as they happen

Rants

• I used to think that TheWikiIsEvil, however I have since realised the error of my ways.

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