Richard Cunningham

I live in Leamington Spa and I work as Computer Systems Programmer at the department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick.

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Some of my interests...

Computing

I'm a Linux user, I use Ubuntu on my home machines and RedHat on the machines at work. I follow kernel development on LWN and have read a couple of books about it.

I'm interested in Open Source and Open standards, almost everything I use software wise is Open Source.

When I want to program something I generally use PHP, Javascript or Bash. I know some other languages but don't tend to use them much.

I take a interest in security and I have reported a couple of security holes which were in udev (in RHEL4, Fedora 2 & 3) and phpMyAdmin.

Travel

(Image from World66)

I started doing independent world travel in 2003 and these are the places I've been (with links to my photos on Flickr)

• 2003
  • Prague in the Czech Republic (long weekend)
  • USA east coast [New York, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia] (2 weeks)
• 2005
  • Japan (2 weeks)
• 2006
  • Amsterdam in the Netherlands (long weekend)
  • Guatemala and Mexico (5 weeks)
  • Guatemala (yes, again) and Honduras (2 weeks).
• 2007
  • India (3 weeks)
• 2008
  • Egypt (2 weeks)
• 2009
  • Helsinki, Finland (less than a week)
  • Paris, France (less than a week)

Photography

I'm interested in photography, here are some of my better photos:

More on my flickr page

Music

I used to have a list of what I listen to here, but it gets out of date, so instead look at my LastFM page.

I've been to the Glastonbury (2000, 2002 & 2003), Reading (1999, 2001, 2002 & 2004), V (2004) festivals and Creamfields (2006) festivals.

Writing etc.

I've got a blog and occasionally write some good comments on Hacker News. You can also catch me on Twitter.