The 23x blog

Jared Earle

Jared frequently refers to himself in the third person when writing colophons. He’s an Englishman, born oop north in the 1960s, now living in Scotland with his other half and three cats. He’s worked in old-school role-playing games as both a writer and graphic designer for the exceedingly brilliant Nightfall Games, but he shifted to IT in the late 90s web boom after a five-year spell at Wizards of the Coast. He recently returned to Scotland after 8 years in Paris.

Work? That would be as a Systems Administrator, doing both Windows and UNIX Admin for BD Network, working with lots of interesting clients on lots of fun projects. He gets to sit at an Apple 23″ screen with a Mac Pro. There’s little better for running lots of terminals.

He’s done a few sites on t’interweb including a twitter reminder Plook, the URL shortener tw3.it and, with Stuart Dallas, a gallery system called Vignettes which can be seen in action here. Oh, and he runs the off-topic-by-design OSX-Nutters mailing list, hosted on the obscenely-named tit-wank.com and hosts a few sites on his cat5.org domain. His interests include, but are not limited to, watching motorcycle racing, wearing mechanical wristwatches and basically living up to the stereotype of a geek.

Yes, he really does like Munchy Boxes and not in an ironic, post-modern way. No, he doesn’t think it’s particularly pretentious to refer to himself in the third person.

If you like that sort of thing, you can always follow him on Twitter. He doesn’t use the third person there.