Profile

I'm an experienced Linux sysadmin and Perl/Python developer, just coming out of unemployment and about to start a new job.

Formerly had a reputation as a Caffeine junkie. Have cut down somewhat but the reputation seems to have stuck.

I'm a geek by nature and love to learn random things about random things.

In 2004 I had a cancer scare, but it all turned out well in the end. You can read the story summary or the individual entries. I don't mind talking about it in the least (I was part of a TV documentary shown in February 2005), so don't feel shy about asking if curious.

Music:

Add N To (X), A Perfect Circle, Gene, The Cranberries, The Levellers, Suede, Sigur Ros, Placebo, Muse, Zero 7, Air, The Counting Crows, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Belle And Sebastian, VNV Nation, Camera Obscura

Food:

Eating habits, likes and dislikes explained here.
Fancy sharing a pizza? - use this tool to enter your preferred ingredients and see how they compare with mine
I love to cook, especially for groups of people. I've arranged some recipes of mine and other people and eventually hope to move them into a seperate website.

Beverages:

Fruit juice (especially Tropicana's breakfast juice and citcrus juices in general)
Caffeine (coke, pepsi,irn bru, mountain dew, jolt) - I usually buy the rarer stuff from http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/
Alcohol - seldom. I drink maybe 10 units per year but go long stretches of sobriety. When I do drink though, I like vokda, gin and sweet flavoured spirits (baileys, kahlua, triplesec, bols blue, cointreau)

Geekdom

Blog Code: B9 d+ t- k++ s- u- f- i- o+/++ x++ e++ l- c-
Geek Code: GCS d-(--) s+:--(---) a- C++/+++ UL+++$ L+++$ P++$ E(-) W++(+++)@ N+ o? K- w(-) PS++ PE- Y+ PGP t+@ 5- X R- tv(+) b DI(+) D G e(+)@ h r++ z++(-)

Contact details:

Instant messenger details at http://www.livejournal.com/users/matthewp/86958.htm.
Phone number and address for the select few located at
http://matthewp.livejournal.com/231680.html

In an emergency situation, every second counts. I participate in the LJ Abuse Emergency Contact Information First Post program. Do you? The life you save may be your own.

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Narcissism:

My wishlist can be found at http://www.thingsilove.org.uk/wishlist.shtml?user=mattp

This is what others have to say about me; have your say here :

• a caffiene addict -- kingginger
  
• an interesting guy who rocks -- linusx1
  
• a caffeine junkie -- twotwenty
  
• a big old fluffy badger -- zimpenfish
  
• the kind of guy who posts links which damage your eyes and stunt your growth. -- distressme
  
• one of the sweetest guys I know -- griffen
  
• a cute, imaginatively sick, poptastically-inclined, bi geek boy with attitude! (but not ENOUGH attitude, by far!!) -- kerrykat
  
• Kind, thoughtful and stunningly sexy -- kelemvor
  
• special -- mhw
  
• weighs less than his boots -- adjectivemarcus
  
• a new mate :) -- sheeshkebab
  
• a froody kinda guy — dineleeeee
  
• the matthew with the mostest — tax
  
• A bit tickly — trishpiglet
  
• Amazingly warm and wonderful in a million ways. We love him loads! — ruth_sedina
  
• Extraordinarily attractive and, perhaps unfortunately, fluffy as an extremely fluffy thing. — duranorak
  
• Quiet, however, in my experience, it's always the quiet ones you have to watch!! — poannie
  
• Responsible for making sure that I'll never look at an eel in the same light again :-| — hieroglyphe
  
• the sweetest man, with the loveliest, fluffiest hair :) — northerncutie
  
• absolutely beautiful...*mwahness* — darkgoddesskim
  
• preferred by 8 out of 10 cats. — bluehelen
  
• Delightfully snugglable with a hint of squee. — tartful_dodger
  
• A rare beauty of the cutest hue — this_j_observes