Welcome to my personal site: this is where you'll find things I'm interested in, from mapping and locative media to audio narratives, from embodiment and physical computing to haunting and the phenomenology of online mourning. I'm:

• a web developer specialising in server-side architecture for web based services, and front-end interface programming;
• a lecturer at Bournemouth University where I teach theory and practice in Interactive Media;
• a researcher studying the ways people use the web to find emotional support and therapeutic experiences at difficult time;
• a experimental narrative-maker building things with antiques and electronics.

Stowaway is where I've been gathering up my online life, especially my web-based work. You can also find me elsewhere: my blog at Menticulture which I use to develop some of my research and theoretical ideas about people and online media; the Hauntology site which documents my experimental work in creating interactive narrative using space, place, electronics and old objects; there's a curious venue inhabited by Don Chihuahua where you might find music and meta-fictional reflections of some interest; and of course, you can find me on Twitter. You can find my portfolio of work here too.

Stowaway has been here for over a decade now - I recently did some digging, curious to remember the early history of my personal website. The domain was registered on 3rd February 2000 - I'd been using Freeserve space before then - but I didn't start developing the blog until October that year. The site shows up a few months later in the Wayback Machine, when, apparently, I was an experimental video-maker. In 2001 I was also making webpages that looked like desktop software so that office-based surfer-werkers didn't have to worry about bosses looking over their shoulders. Good times!