Author
introduction
I'm Larg, a technical consultant, father of two, a husband and English. I am an Internet engineer - I build and maintain bits of the Internet for people to run their web sites on. I deal with the lower layers of hardware, networks, OS (Operating System) and off-the-shelf applications such as drupal, a content management application and ldirectord, a server manager. My job stops there and I hand over to web developers who build the top layers. I have done this as a day job for big employers like Motorola and BT, and small web agencies. I currently work part time in the finance sector. They have plenty of money to spend on technology for me to play with.
Larg is a nickname I gained about a decade ago. I have an old girlfriend to thank for that one. I could have been called Duke or Ace, but no. Larg.
The LIC (Larg's internet Cluster) is a perjuried creation from the humongous Internet brain of Larg.
I have spent spent far too much of his time hacking the Internet. I am, like most, an indentured wage slave working for the evil empire.
Feel free to e-mail Larg with your comments and suggestions. Please give me something more interesting to read than Nigerian scams and penis enlargement spam.
what I am
Origin of "Larg"
Many years ago back in the mists of time I lived in St. Albans with my girlfriend and her Italian cousin. The cousin kept calling me a larva because of the state I was in in the mornings - as in maggot, no eyes, no spine, just a pink blob, etc. Nice. My girlfriend started calling me "larv". Later this somehow got corrupted by lager to make "Larg".
When we changed cities 12 years ago my girlfriend thought it would be funny to tell everyone we met my name was "larg". I have no idea why. It stuck far better than my real name did: In fact the nickname stuck around longer than she did.
what I am not
If you made a one-dimensional measurement of the human spectrum, ranging from
- a damn handsome, slightly mysterious and super cool Ninja
- a drunk, stupid, selfish, immoral and arrogant git - say, an investment banker -
where I am
England, usually.
history
My childhood was spent in Indiana, USA. My teenage years were in England. Does that explain it?
