Nostuff.org is the domain of me, Chris Keene. I live in Brighton, East Sussex UK.
Work
I’m the Technical Development Manager at the University of Sussex Library, which means I play with web and technology stuff.
Libraries are all about providing access to information, and how to discover relevant stuff. Both of these things are now very much online and web based (though apparently we still have paper books, must check them out). The former – accessing information – in online journals, databases ebooks and websites, and latter – finding and discovering the right information – via catalogues, protocols and sharing data. Along side this is a desire to see academic research, data and metadata being as open and reusable as possible, which means things like the semantic web are quite exciting.
Me
Originally from Northampton, studied (not enough) Computer Science at The University of Kent (at Canterbury).
I’m rather fond of real ale, wine, whiskey, music, comedy, technology, the web, web apps, wikipedia (read too much of it), The Economist, and have a passing interest in Architecture (99% is crap), maps and civil engineering (you can’t choose what interests you, I’m not proud ok?)
Nostuff.org
Content-free since 2002. Originally a set of static webpages, and a place to put all the old websites I had created (Geocities, University personal space, ISP… if someone gave me web space, I created badly written content). Originally hosted by Freedom2surf, now hosted by Dreamhost (I recommend them, and if you follow that link you should get $20 off).
Most pages were static plan text html. This was good, no load on server, good for caching. In 2009 I moved the remaining pages, including this one to a Content Management System. The system which was quick to use and had all the features I required was Wordpress, which I also use for the blog. I recommend it.
You can find me elsewhere online, notably twitter, you can find more details of which in this blog post.
Contact
You can emailme at chriskeene+nostuff@gmail.com – you can remove the +nostuff if you wish.
