{"id":2,"date":"2006-10-18T20:09:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:52:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-border\" title=\"My Sign\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/sign_100x100px.png?resize=100%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Toms Sign\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Sign<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><br \/>\n<!--\ngetTemporalGreeting();\n\/\/--><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Interested or not, this is my website. There&#8217;s no particular reason for it &#8211; I guess it&#8217;s sort of a hobby of mine. I created it wayyyyy back in 1999 back when websites were well, rare. I&#8217;m a software engineer by trade, so some kind of web presence is handy and it&#8217;s in my nature to record and categorise things.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>My vital stats:<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Full Name:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Thomas Michael Fotherby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Age:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>46 <small>(<em>20th March 1980<\/em>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Nationality:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>I&#8217;m with the <a class=\"no_icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/georgecross.gif?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"George Cross flag\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> part of <a class=\"no_icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/unionjack.gif?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Union Jack flag\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Relationship:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Married <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><br \/>\n<!--\nvar days=getNumOfDaysBetweenTwoDates(new Date(),new Date(\"02\/03\/1999\"));\ndocument.write(\"I'm married! Kix and I have been together since 3rd\/Feb\/1999 (\"+days+\" days).\");\n\/\/--><\/script><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>email address:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-border alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/handWrittenEmail_Small.png?resize=198%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tom Fotherbys email address\" width=\"198\" height=\"30\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Hobbies:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>In order of frequency: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/index.php\/2003\/02\/pen-fu-aka-pen-spinning\/\">Pen-fu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/index.php\/category\/techjournal\/\">Computing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/index.php\/category\/diy\/\">DIY<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/index.php\/category\/journal\/\/\">Journaling<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/index.php\/category\/book-review\/\">Reading<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/index.php\/2001\/01\/mister-babache-harlequins-winter-1998\/\">The Diabolo<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Favorite colour:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: lightgreen;\"><strong style=\"background-color: green; padding: 5px;\">Green<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Worst colour:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: pink;\"><strong style=\"background-color: #000; padding: 5px;\">Pink<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Favorite animal:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Penguins and Ducks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Favorite food:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Peking Duck.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Favorite books:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dune, Sophie&#8217;s world, Harry Potter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Favorite films:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>In my 30&#8217;s<\/em>: Social Network. <em>In my 20&#8217;s<\/em>: Meet Joe Black, Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s, Amelie. <em>At Uni<\/em>: The Matrix. <em>As a teenager<\/em>: A Life Less Ordinary, Withnail and I. <em>As a Kid<\/em>: Ferris Buellers day off, Hackers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Music taste:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Always changing but I have never enjoyed music as much as when I listened to Weezer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Broken Bones:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Both legs, at different times luckily.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Phobias:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/11\/why-i-hate-frogs\/\">Frogs<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Bad at:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Anything to do with tone, beat, rhythm or vocals and speling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Claim\u00a0to\u00a0fame:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>An unconfirmed quote from Steve Redgrave to my rowing coach. &#8220;<em>I here your novice boat is quite good this year<\/em>&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Anagrams:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Thomas Michael Fotherby =&gt;<br \/>\nComfortably, he is the ham.<br \/>\nHo Ho! became filthy smart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested or not, this is my website. There&#8217;s no particular reason for it &#8211; I guess it&#8217;s sort of a hobby of mine. I created it wayyyyy back in 1999 back when websites were well, rare. I&#8217;m a software engineer by trade, so some kind of web presence is handy and it&#8217;s in my nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}