About Me

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Contents 1 Who Am I? 2 Widgets 3 Interests 4 News Feeds 5 Biography

Who Am I? My name is Steven Patterson, this is my website, and this is a little bit about me. Contact: webmaster@bottleneck.org Find me on Facebook or on Twitter Pictures of me My Last.fm profile where you can explore my musical tastes You can also see where I am sometimes! This is My Calendar

Widgets

Interests

I'm interested in motorsport, and in particular tend to follow the British Touring Car Championship. I also play with my camera quite a lot, and always enjoy a holiday, particularly skiing! Recently, I've become more and more obsessed with the idea of learning to fly, but we'll see about that.

News Feeds

Here is a list of news feeds that I currently read.

British Journal of Photography	Feed	Web Site	BTCCPages.com News	Feed	Web Site
Ctrl+Alt+Del	Feed	Web Site	evad.blog	Feed	Web Site
Explosm.net	Feed	Web Site	FlightSim.Com Web Site News	Feed	Web Site
GamePolitics News	Feed	Web Site	Le Monde.fr : a la Une	Feed	Web Site
PhotoshopDisasters	Feed	Web Site	Sniff Petrol	Feed	Web Site
Soton	Feed	Web Site	superuseless superpowers	Feed	Web Site
Telegraph Snow and Ski	Feed	Web Site	The National Union of Journalists	Feed	Web Site
There, I Fixed It	Feed	Web Site	xkcd.com	Feed	Web Site

Biography

Well, such as it is...

I was born in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands, UK, on June 10th 1977 - which at time of writing makes me 31, rapidly approaching 32.

I attended the Mount Pleasant Primary School in Coseley, later the Hurst Hill Primary School, and from there went to the Bishop Milner RC Comprehensive School in Dudley. A small handful of A-levels later, and it was off to the University of Birmingham for a MSci degree in Physics.

Having graduated, just about, with a 3rd, I went to work for a little IT company called tMSc, based in Cambridge, where I did general Windows on NT4, Exchange, and Linux administration. I also spent a lot of time coding in C and in x86 assembler. After about six months there, I moved on to the University of Southampton Computing Services department (now iSolutions - iSolutions) as a Unix systems administrator. I remain there to this day, but my job role has changed somewhat. Having become an expert in Sendmail, then apache, squid, bind, INN, ... well a plethora of service applications, I then volunteered to become the University's first Oracle DBA. I built an Oracle infrastructure, watched a small team grow around me, and then was promoted out of that to manage the entire systems and DBA team, numbering from 10 - 20 people at various times. From 1st September 2009, I will be taking up the post of iSolutions Infrastructure lead for the School of Medicine.

So, work aside, I have a house in Hamble-le-Rice, which is a village near to Southampton, bordered on one side by Southampton Water and on the other by the river Hamble. It's quite a nice place to live, reasonably pretty and with some green open spaces, and supports a few more pubs and restaurants than one might expect, thanks to the large influx of "yachties" who have their boats moored on the river.

I share my house with my wife Ruth, we were married on July 26^th 2008.