About me
I’m Andrew Kember. I live in Dunfermline, near Edinburgh in Scotland, with my wife Lisa and daughter Miranda.
I’m a Christian who believes that the Bible is the inspired word of God. I’m a bit of a geek, who thinks that clear, simple design is lovely.
I like eating tasty food, drinking good wine, watching entertaining films and reading absorbing books. I don’t eat black pudding and I dislike liver. I’m better at thinking up great projects than actually starting them. I’m better at starting mundane tasks than I am at finishing them.
Gift list
If you’d like to buy me a present, but need inspiration, you could look at my Amazon wish-list, or the list below.
- Pure DMX-20 Mini system hi-fi (£90)
- Woodworking lessons
- Akai E2 Headrush Phrase Sampler Guitar Effects Pedal (A what? See this youtube clip – KT Tunstall uses the E2 to set up her backing loop live on stage) (£102)
- Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) (about £130 from Dixons, Curry’s etc.)
- Metal Pen Key Ring (£20)
- Regular Expressions Shirt (£15, medium, remember international shipping)
- Pedometer with a cover to stop me accidentally pressing ‘reset’ (£11)
- Body Shop cream for after shaving (£8)
- Etymotic Research Isolator Headphones (£47)
(Last updated 6th April 2008)
Feed reading
This is a list of sites I have in my RSS newsreader (Google Reader). I read them because I find them interesting. I don’t agree with a lot of what’s said on some of them, and don’t condone the content of many of them, but here they are, nonetheless:
- A List Apart (feed)
- ADD / XOR / ROL (feed)
- Antipixel – Excerpts (feed)
- Anything Else (feed)
- Apprising Ministries (feed)
- Ascent Stage (feed)
- Authentic Boredom (feed)
- Baekdal.com (feed)
- BBC NEWS | Magazine Monitor: How to Say (feed)
- BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition (feed)
- Better Bibles Blog (feed)
- BitWorking | Joe Gregorio (feed)
- BSBlog (feed)
- Cleverdevil (feed)
- collision detection (feed)
- Coudal Partners Blended Feed (feed)
- Dave Winer (feed)
- Deleted by Tomorrow (feed)
- Design Milk (feed)
- Dilbert Daily Strip (feed)
- Dilbert.com Blog (feed)
- dustbury.com (feed)
- Every Day Fiction (feed)
- Flight Level 390 (feed)
- FT.com – New Technology Policy Forum (feed)
- Ftrain.com (feed)
- Get Rich Slowly (feed)
- Gizmodo: Top (feed)
- Google Sightseeing (feed)
- Google Testing Blog (feed)
- Graceful Exits (feed)
- Jason Kottke (feed)
- Joel on Software (feed)
- Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog (feed)
- Joyeur (feed)
- Kember.net (feed)
- Lifehack.org (feed)
- Lifehacker (feed)
- Light Blue Touchpaper (feed)
- Linux.com :: Features (feed)
- Mail online – Peter Hitchens (feed)
- Marginal Revolution (feed)
- Mars Hill Church: Mark Driscoll Audio Channel (feed)
- Mars Hill Church: Teaching and Preaching (feed)
- Martin’s Blog… (feed)
- Master Your Card (feed)
- Not A Blog™ (feed)
- Notes from a Linguistic Mystic (feed)
- Official Gmail Blog (feed)
- Official Google Docs Blog (feed)
- OK/Cancel (feed)
- ongoing (feed)
- petite anglaise (feed)
- Pharyngula (feed)
- pica + pixel (feed)
- Relevant Christian Blog (feed)
- RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates (feed)
- Robert Scoble (feed)
- Schneier on Security (feed)
- Schussman.com (feed)
- Scott Yang’s Playground (feed)
- Simon Willison’s Weblog (feed)
- SimpleBits (feed)
- Soldier Ant (feed)
- Stephen Fry (feed)
- Subtraction (feed)
- Tech Blog (feed)
- Textism (feed)
- The B-List: Latest entries (feed)
- The official update feed from the Google Apps team (feed)
- The Shifted Librarian (feed)
- Unclutterer (feed)
- Unit Structures (feed)
- Unsolicited Opinion (feed)
- UNSTOPPABLE ROBOT NINJA (feed)
- UW Computer Security Course Blog (feed)
- waiterrant.net (feed)
- Walt-O-Matic (feed)
- Withering Fig (feed)
- Wondermark Lite (feed)
- XKCD (feed)
- Zeal (feed)
About the website
This is my personal website, which I use to write about my interests and also use to practise my web development skills.
The website is hosted at http://kember.net by Joyent. If you want to experience the future direction of web hosting, get an account, because the good people at Joyent are on the bleeding edge.
The registration of the Kember.net domain is ably handled by Pteron net services whose friendly and professional service deserves great credit.
The website content is managed by Textpattern (4) which is an open source project started by Dean Allen. This rather neat content management system is simple enough to allow me to concentrate on my content, but feature-rich enough for me to display it how I want. It’s not over-burdened with features, but has most of the things I need.