About me

Hello. My name is Simon Howard. I recently completed a masters degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Southampton. Some of my friends call me fraggle. Do not call me 'Si'.

I am an INFJ (Counselor) personality type. My favourite colour is purple. I like Rubiks cubes.

I like many and most different genres of music. I play electric bass and acoustic guitar (badly). Its hard to draw up a shortlist, but some of my favourite bands are The Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, Slint, David Bowie, The Doors, DJ Shadow, Public Enemy, Herbie Hancock and The Pixies.

I have enjoyed computers and programming for many years. I run Ubuntu GNU/Linux with the GNOME desktop environment. My favourite programming languages are C and Ruby, although I am proficient in many others also. There is a list of some of my projects here. I am interested in networking and also games programming - I have been active in the Doom community for a number of years. There is a short biography of me on The Doom Wiki.