Callum Gibson's Budget Homepage

Welcome to this no-frills homepage. If you care what I look like, let's get it over with now and click here.

What I do

As little as possible. Mostly I work. I'm a software engineer (fancy name for computer programmer that makes you sound more prestigious) for Deutsche Bank in Sydney, Australia. I've been there some considerable time now (since 1991) but I'm open to suggestions. Apart from that I am married to Jenny and we have 4 children so you can guess what the rest of my time is spent doing. We live in Ashbury which is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney and attend Ashfield Baptist Church, which is nearby. We've been going there pretty much the whole time we've been married. I'm involved in running a bible study group which meets in our home, and playing bass and guitar as part of the worship team.

Stuff I like

bass (the instrument, not the fish) and guitar;
playing tennis with some keen work colleagues;
recording and composing music, if only there was more time to do so;
computers, Unix (tm), FreeBSD, C;
Mike Oldfield, Alan Parsons, Primus, Jamiroquai, Porcupine Tree and anyone else who produces interesting music.

Things for which I'm famous

Okay, not really, but if you search the web for my name you will see it come up in a number of places (which are actually me).

Xbae widget contributions;
Usenet posts on aus.religion.* and occasionally elsewhere;
mailing list posts on TBL (bass players' list), *BSD (BSD operating systems lists), ups (an excellent unix debugger), rc (a shell).
Clam shell - a unix shell, popular on Minix at one time. This was my honours project and was small enough to be ported to Minix, at a time (pre-Linux) when other shells were too big, closed source or non-existent. Who knows, maybe Linus has even used it!
VTWM, a window manager for the X Window System.

Anything about horse riding in NZ or under-8 cricket in the UK is another guy.

PGP and GPG keys are here.

This page was last updated on Fri 5 Sep 2008 09:40:27 EST