chrisduran.eu

This site marks my return back to the blogosphere. It has been at least 2 years since I was last here. It is nice to be back. My last few blogs had quite a personal colouring, and ended up becoming a day-to-day, week-to-week account of the dreary details of my life. It got boring, so I stopped. Now that I have gone full circle and have returned to where I started (blogospherically speaking, geographically speaking I am over 16500km away from the birth of my last blog titled Brisbane to Oxford… guess where I am near now…) I want to filter the content of this blog a little, and only put up information that I think others might care for. I will be concentrating on a varied but somewhat definite set of things that are facets of my life.

I have been an avid surfer for a couple of years now, I started when I returned to Australia in fact. I have never embraced a sport quite like I have surfing. It is one of those unique activities that can change your very outlook on life, often for the better. It plays a big part of my existance these days, and I suspect I will write about it quite a lot. If I go somewhere, and it is amazing.. it will be up here, maps and all. I don’t believe in ’secret spots’ and the possessiveness it entails. Nobody owns the sea. Also, I snowboard from time to time so I might have to drop info down about that as well…

I have worked and studied in the IT industry and related fields (namely, Bioinformatics) for quite a while now. I am an applied informatician at heart, which is why I am currently researching in Bioinformatics. I’m not too keen on IT for the sake of IT, but rather prefer using it as a tool to achieve an end. I do a lot of work with a variety of languages including Java, Python, Perl, etc. I also use OS X at home, Linux at work, and Windows if forced. If I ever come across a cool trick, or if I write a script that I think might be useful, I’ll be putting it up here.

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