Collin Van Uden:
Husband, Father, and IT dude from sunny old Ballarat who likes to rant, rave, learn, unlearn the stuff he learnt was wrong after learning stuff that wasn’t quite as wrong, in preparation for new learning of other wrong and non-wrong stuff.
At work, he fixes things, and/or tries to make things work better.
At play, he writes reads and words, struggles to learn as much as he can about stuff that he thinks is cool, and as often as possible delves into the deep dark recesses of human existence, thought, and moral integrity on the search for the meaning of life. (Which he has in fact established is not cheese)
On odd occasions he writes stuff that rhymes. This is usually shamefully kept (offline) in a secret book beside his bed, however occasionally he’ll drink vodka and remember Posterous.
He also develops characters for numerous books and short stories that will (probably) never be written. These don’t rhyme.
Collin tends to ‘overtalk’ things, and as such have been more or less banned from speaking amongst friends, family, and at public events and functions. So after a failed attempt at inventing a new board game (aptly named ‘Hangfish’) and with no other outlet for his ramblings than the odd conversation with a (not surprisingly) uncommunicative fern, he turned to the internet.
From this site he will be posting info on trends in technology, social media, and public opinion/debate (the latter mostly ‘coz he likes to stick his pointy nose in where it doesn’t really belong), as well as the odd informative piece gleaned from observations during his daily life and/or stolen from aforementioned internet.
Recently, he has also realised he employs the use of parentheses (brackets) way too often. More recently than that, he’s realised that Lewis Carroll did the same thing through most of the first half of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, so has decided that it’s OK.
Professionally, I can do stuff. Writing stuff, internet stuff, computer stuff & (limited) coding stuff.
If ye be liking the cut o’ my jib, I’m open for nocturnal freelance work or really really well paid ‘other’. (Aren’t we all?)
You can view a professional profile here. It’s not particularly professional, so perhaps you’d rather just strike up a conversation on Twitter and see where that goes.
Got a question? Ask it below, or send me an email via the Contact page.
Got a problem with something you’ve read or seen on this site? You could use the Contact page, but I’d prefer if you just got over it and left me alone.
Disclosure: In accordance with the social media policy of my employer, I am obliged to disclose that I am an employee of Telstra, however in no way am I authorised to speak on behalf of that company. All digital content produced and published by me here and elsewhere on the world wide web is my own opinion, ill informed assumption, misunderstanding or poor attempt at humour, and not that of my employer.
24/02/2011
Today I decided bio’s are evil, and awfully under-represent who we are. Accordingly, I’ll be updating this page from time to time with things I have learned, or things I come to learn about me. Or failing that, random little experiences, observations, accrued prejudices, descriptions, or sundry other maunderings as I see fit to share with you, that strange person that reads all of the ‘About’ page. (Shoosh, it’s my bloody page and I’ll do what I want with it.)
Fact 1: I am one of those people who read all of the About page.