I'm in johannesburg, south africa. the few pics i've put up can be found on a flickr page .. there's also an almost functioning weblog

things i'/m interested in are sort of solidifying on my del.icio.us pages and on stumbleupon. Then theres my shared items from google reader

i'm a software developer, working in C++ and in Java, and now spending a lot of my time with Python.

 current things i'm playing with:

• working on a load of ideas implemented as plugins and extensions for wikidpad .. like a tagbrowser using tags within wikidpad
  
• a GlobalTagBrowser .. connecting tags from different contexts / services
  
• PocketWiki a very basic wiki for PocketPC using pythonCE - which will have to wait until i can find an appropriate ui toolkit - (update: decided to use the dot net compact framework - just to get something working..)
  
• a Sokoban Puzzle Generator using Evolutionary Algorithms to select for small, hard puzzles.
• and other, much less interesting things necessary to pay for survival ..

 other things I'm likely to make a noise about at the moment:

• folksonomies, tagging in general.
  
• growing my wiki garden
• rated audio from the web
  
• rated video from the web
• synthetic genomics
• cultural evolution
  
• The Emerging Mind - a set of lectures by the noted neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
• OpenSource and the CooperativeStrategy 

some books:

• A Short History of Nearly Everything - BillBryson
• Q - checkout LutherBlissett 
• all of GregEgan's hard science fiction
• PhilDick
• The Blind Watchmaker - RichardDawkins
• Jitterbug Perfume - TomRobbins
• greg egan's stuff