Hello and thanks for taking the time to have a look around.

Me…

First and foremost I’m a father.

After that, in no particular order, I’m a DNS geek; an Enterprise Architect; a Motorsport UK Incident Officer; a Motorsport UK Clerk of the Course; and a photographer.

Motorsport…

I’ve always been interested in motorsport. I’d seen those folks in orange on the telly and had occasionally wondered how you got involved in that.

Then, in about 1999 a friend and I were chatting at a car club meeting and he said he was going to a marshal training day the following weekend.

It never occurred to me that you could just turn up, volunteer, and be a marshal.

So I started going. I enjoyed it. I made a lot of friends.

I got involved in the running of the race days, working in Race Control in a variety of roles, and eventually followed the training to become a Clerk of the Course for circuit racing events.

I completed the first phase of that, earning “Deputy” status, and from the start of the 2025 season have added the assistant (training) category for “Speed” events which means sprints, hill climbs and drag racing.

Career…

I’m lucky enough to have a job that is mostly like getting paid to do a hobby.

I have a background in the design and operations of large scale critical infrastructure and services, mostly involving DNS, DNSSEC, BGP, etc.

I’m not a software developer, but I can get by in perl, python, and a bunch of similar things, and I’m kinda learning Go.

What you’ll find here…

This blog is mostly somewhere for me to make notes of things, some of which you might find useful or interesting.