I’ve been building websites since back when I was in primary school playing around with geocities websites (ah, those were the days ;-)
I set up jethrocarr.com back in 2006 which turned into a blog the following year and finally got upgraded in 2010 to WordPress.
No idea where I “found out about blogging” from, I’ve grown up with the internet all my life and having an online presence has always been something that I’ve done.
I find these hard, I have too many photos of other people without myself in them. However there was a recent one taken at @mojooldbank with a bunch of twitter friends:
@jethrocarr, @sitharus, @xoxbubbles, @smrtgirl at @mojooldbank
So from the back, myself, the horribly cute couple of @sitharus and @xoxbubbles and Wellington’s number one cougar @smrtgirl
This photo is particularly interesting/scary to me, since I realised how much I look like a younger version (and less cool version if you ask @honorarykiwi) of my dad.
I listen to a huge range of music, mostly thanks to a good upbringing and musical education by my dad – since before I could walk, we always had great music on in the background – electronica, rock, techno and all sorts of other categories inbetween.
I’m not sure I can classify what I listen to into these categories, but I’ll try:
Happy
I’m never happy, it’s the human condition. ;-) If, hypothetically, I was happy, I would listen to a range of stuff including Nightwish, Rammstein, Rush, Jean Micheal Jarre, Kraftwork and more.
Lately I’ve been playing American Addio and Four Tet a lot, but that’s pretty much the case with any new artist – I’ll play it non-stop till I’m sick of it ;-)
Sad
Probably my number one for when I’m feeling down is Genesis or Peter Gabriel’s works, love this stuff and it helps me feel better. :-)
Pink Floyd and Nightwish also both work when feeling down as well as a number of classic rock bands.
Bored
I don’t really get bored, I have far too much to do all the time….. I can get tired of things and procrastinate, but I’m always doing *something*.
Hyped
I’d tend to go for fast-paced music such as Muse or some techno (think Rave Mission)
Mad
I’ll dig out the heavy metal stuff when feeling mad – maybe Metallica, Nirvana, or even more commerical stuff – I’ve even been known to listen to Linkin Park on occasion.
I do love Alestorm, which can only be described as insane pirate metal. :-D
This was a bit of a challange, I’ve had a rough month & week, so feeling a little down and hard to feel proud of that much. :-(
On the plus side, I did sign several new customer agreements this week, so that’s pretty awesome and I should be proud about that I guess. :-)
I have a number of goals for the next month or so, unfortunately not particularly exciting:
This is a tricky one, there have been a lot of people who have had a great impact – friends, parents, colleagues, so I’ve chosen the event that had the biggest impact on me.
This picture is from linux.conf.au 2006, which was the very first linux.conf.au I ever attended, held in Dunedin NZ.
I had just left college and was looking for a job in IT at the time, planning to sit my RHCE in a couple months (which I did and passed), before taking my first job.
To say that linux.conf.au blew my mind, would be an understatement – before then I was a geek sitting in my bedroom, compiling linux systems from source and attending college with a bunch of time wasters – at linux.conf.au, I realised that I wasn’t alone and that there were hundreds of ubernerds like myself out there.
It was an entire week of geekery with some of the brightest minds and celebrities of the open source work, I came away from it with:
But linux.conf.au also served as a point in my life where I formulated my ideas regarding ethics, open source, freedom and many of the views that I hold to this day.
Probably one of the most memorable experiences in my life – I still go to linux.conf.au every year and it’s still my most favourite week of the year and I always come back feeling excited and renewed with awesome ideas.
I’m not a huge superhero fan, I tend to prefer heroes who are (somewhat) bound by the real world yet manage to prevail.
However, I think if I have to choose one it’s going to be Ozymandias as of the Watchman movie fame (I haven’t read the comics, although from what I understand, the character is pretty similar in both).
There’s a number of reasons for this selection, mostly about the fact I can relate or admire him:
If you haven’t seen the Watchmen movie, you should, it’s a masterpiece of cinematic brilliance, I loved it.
I’m not the biggest traveller, I tend to usually travel for work or conferences – typically at least once a year for linux.conf.au.
It was tricky to find a photo at first, most of what I have taken overseas is of friends or cool conference stuff, but not so many sight-seeing pictures of different places.
What I’ve selected is the photo from when I was in Sydney for linux.conf.au 2007 and got convinced to do some sightseeing instead of sitting on my laptop IMing people who were sitting next to me the whole time. ;-)
Sydney Harbour, 2007
I remember it being very hot, very full of people and BIG. It’s hard to take in the scale from this picture alone, but near the bottom of the bridge you can see a small building. That’s actually a large block of flats – the bridge is absolutely massive, quite stunning, much more amazing to me than the Opera House or the city itself.
I have so many habits/attributes I wish I didn’t have, I don’t know where to begin…
The challange for day 03 is a little tricky, since there are so many different people I could choose from, but also because I tend not to take photos when out with friends.
However I went out with my team from Amberdms to the Wellington tweetup at Hootch last night and got @amiemccarron to take a photo of the team. :-)
As you can clearly see I'm the evil manager, hence the glowing eyes and all the red relfections from the surrounding flames ;-)
As a side note, I think this is the first photo with all of us actually in it despite working together for about 6 months now. :-)