I work on the web.

This is me, I work on the web.

I'm from Geelong originally, lived in Melbourne for a few years, and now I'm living in Oslo, Norway.

I'm making a living 100% from freelance work for the first time ever which is a little scary - especially as I'm living in the city with the highest cost of living in the world.

I'm feeling a bit like a sout-piel at the moment, keeping up with the aussie ruby community and getting involved with the norwegian one. Not to mention having client work in both timezones :)

My journey towards working on the web is very similar to a lot of those posted here. I had run out of Nintendo (original NES) games and money at around age 11; my dad pointed me towards a very dusty, very old TRS-80 in a cupboard (shit, wolf3d had been out for years at this point). When I ran out of games on that too, well, that was when the beginners BASIC book was pulled out of the cupboard too.

From that point on I was hooked on coding. After some early, bad experiences with IE and Netscape I put the web away as a shitty platform I wanted nothing to do with. Lower level socket programming seemed like the cool shit to be doing.

When I next raised my head, the web had completely changed. It presented interesting problems, it was bring people together to do cool things, and it gave us more ways to procrastinate than my discipline can handle.

Plus coding for the web beats the hell out of the win32 API., or Java's swing libraries, or any other gui related tool that has really given me the shits over the years.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johotravels/1327935695/