Chris Miller
Posted by Chris
| Location: |
Dumfries, Scotland, UK |
| Age: | 24 |
| D.O.B: | 22nd December 1983 |
| Contact: | chris@chris-miller.org |
Ocupation
Student, studying for an MSc Advanced Computing Science at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, UK.
Music
Anything, mostly mod, indie and rock. Favorite bands include OCS, Metallica, The Beatles, Elvis and many others.
Books
I have regular spurts of reading which I use to read various books. I am an avid fan of Terry Pratchett and have recently read all the Harry Potter books which are available and loved them.
You will find a more up-to-date portrayal of what I am reading by visiting the books section of my site.
Gaming
I enjoy gaming on my PC and Mac, I have recently found a new love of console gaming as well. I enjoy all kinds of games, mostly first person shooters and strategy games for the PC and arcade-ish games for consoles.
I own a PC which runs most games smoothly, upon writing this I am playing Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and Locomotion (an updated version of Transport Tycoon)
As well as the PC, I own a Nintendo GameCube and a Nintendo DS. I enjoy the Mario range of games over both platforms and also regularly play Serious Sam: Final Encounter and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, both on the Cube.
Interests
I enjoy watching films, reading, listening to music, getting drunk, and so forth. My favorite author is Terry Pratchett, especially his Discworld series. I enjoy all kinds of films, my favorites including the Evil Dead Trilogy, Old School, The Shining, I could go on, but I’m not going to.
I am interested in computing (thus the degree choice), I am also quite obviously interested in web-design and have been teaching myself PHP, this is the result. I have learned various programming languages throughout my degree program, inlcuding Ada, Java, C, Haskell, HTML, XHTML, PHP and Linux shell scripting.
Hardware
I own a personally built PC running an Athlon XP 2800, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb graphics card with Microsoft Windows XP and Linux Redhat 9.0 dual boot. I also own a 15″ PowerBook G4. The majority of this site was written on my PowerBook remotely on the server where this is run using Emacs.
Hosting
Just a note to say that this site is hosted via a virtual machine which I rent from a UK company called Bytemark Hosting.
