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 frequently make a mess of vbscript and macros for Excel & Outlook to make his day more productive. At play, he Presses Words, struggles to learn as much as he can about stuff that he thinks is cool, and often 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) He has also discovered that if Google Buzz had badges, he’d be the Mayor of most of regional Victoria. (Next to Lauchlan Bence) In between, he’s can usually be found performing random acts of troubleshooting.
On odd occasions he writes stuff that rhymes. This is shamefully kept (offline) in a secret book beside his bed. 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 (the disgustingly commercial) Mashable, (the curiously informative) Delimiter, or (the ever enlightening) Making Hay
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.
You can view a professional profile here.
If, for some strange reason you’d like to become a (content) contributor to this site, head over to the Contact page with a brief description of why you want to crash my party, what colour your last pair of socks were, and your general knowledge (unabridged) and I’ll assess your suitability. Which essentially means I’ll decide if you sound smarter than me and we’ll go from there.
Got a question? Ask it below, or send me an email via the Contact page. Want your PC issue sorted out, or a cheap website created? Same deal. 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, misunderstanding or poor attempt at humour, and not that of my employer.