Who writes this stuff?
Jared Earle
Jared frequently refers to himself in the third person when writing colophons. He’s an Englishman, born oop north in the 1960s, now living in Scotland with his other half and three cats. He’s worked in old-school role-playing games as both a writer and graphic designer for the exceedingly brilliant Nightfall Games, but he shifted to IT in the late 90s web boom after a five-year spell at Wizards of the Coast. In 2007 he returned to Scotland after 8 years in Paris.
Work? That would be as a Systems Administrator, doing both Windows and UNIX Admin for clients including BD Network, Realview and Nightfall Games. He’s available for freelance gigs, if you need someone that can manage and tune your web servers, optimise your LANs, hack your Gibsons and ‘shop pictures of kittens.
He’s done a few sites on t’interweb including a twitter reminder Plook, the URL shortener tw3.it, the Tweetie Image Service MyQuim and, with Stuart Dallas, a gallery system called Vignettes which can be seen in action here. Oh, and he runs the off-topic-by-design OSX-Nutters mailing list, hosted on the obscenely-named tit-wank.com and hosts a few sites on his cat5.org domain. His most recent website is the super-combined image service and URL shortener 23x.me, a companion to this very blog. His interests include, but are not limited to, watching motorcycle racing, wearing mechanical wristwatches and basically living up to the stereotype of a geek.
As can be gathered by the number of articles on photography on this blog, he quite likes taking photos. He has a Flickr account for regular photos, as can be seen in the photos on the right of this page, and another for his daily iPhone photos. In addition to this blog, he also writes for MonsterBook, along with fellow Nightfall founder Dave Allsop, and occasionally for the motorcycle racing blog MotoRaceReports where, alongside the writing, he’s also a staff photographer. As if this wasn’t enough, he is back writing for Nightfall Games whose stuff is available for sale online.
Some of his work was described by the Conservative Party as “Vulgar” in no less than the Daily Mail and “Despicable” in the Telegraph.
Yes, he really does like Munchy Boxes and not in an ironic, post-modern way. No, he doesn’t think it’s particularly pretentious to refer to himself in the third person.
If you like that sort of thing, you can always follow him on Twitter. He doesn’t use the third person there.
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:24:34 +0000
Hey Jared.
I found your page when I tried to find out what happened to one of the coolest sites I can remember: amigameorlame where games battled head to head.. kinda.
Does this site still exist somewhere?
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:06:48 +0000
I remember that well. That was one of Gribbley’s sites from 1999. I don’t know where it is, though.
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:10:05 +0000
You got an idea how I could contact him to find out what happened to the site?
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:04:13 +0000
Hi Jared – meaning this in the best possible way, you’re just the sort of self-opinionated geek I’m looking for. Would you be prepared to kick the tyres of a new Scotland-based cloud IaaS and give us your valuable and brutally honest feedback about what you like/don’t like? I won’t sully your blog by putting in a link to it here, so please reply to me directly if you’re interested. I’ve got over 40 takers so far to my offer of a free beta trial and I’d like to hear your views too as I get the feeling they’ll be straight.
BTW – nice cat pic. I’ve got 2 British Blues, one sitting on my desk right now. Best stress-busters you could imagine.
Cheers
Christine
Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:08:11 +0000
would be interested to produce some not yet tees…
would you be interested in collaborating?
http://threadme.co.uk/artist
Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:50:42 +0000
thanks for the comment my buckie lovin amigo.
Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:31:00 +0000
You are an idiot of the highest proportions.. FYI it is pretentious to refer to yourself in the third person. Don’t for one minute assume you are some kind of internet hero for that pathetic website that you made. Despicable and Vulgar don’t begin to describe how low you are.
Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:40:36 +0000
Thanks for the comment, Robbie.
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:58:34 +0000
You, Sir, are unbearably awesome.
I wish I were capable of being just like you
xxxxxx
Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:19:04 +0000
please tell me where that picture and I must do my apologies for the inconvenience please contact me by email
Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:55:50 +0000
You have mail.
Fri, 27 May 2011 15:27:06 +0000
Hi Jared,
If you’re open to accepting advertising on your site could you please contact me by email? VERY sorry to contact you through the comments section.
Cheers,
Ali
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:35:32 +0000
Hi Jared,
Just checking out the thatcher site, I note it’s not displaying correctly in IE. The issue is you need to split your @font-face css rule into separate rules for each browser, ie,
@font-face {
font-family: ‘SansThirteenBlack’;
src: url(‘/fonts/sansthirteenblack.eot’);
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
@font-face {
src: local(‘?’), url(‘/fonts/sansthirteenblack.woff’) format(‘woff’), url(‘/fonts/sansthirteenblack.ttf’) format(‘truetype’), url(‘/fonts/sansthirteenblack.svg#webfont180qSKaW’) format(‘svg’);
}
Sorry to be a pedantic geek but, well, I am…
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:22:58 +0000
Hello,
I was wondering if you accept guest post for your blog. If you do, I would like to submit a few. I’m a recent college graduate, with an English major, looking to build out my portfolio. I can write on a wide variety of topics and am sure you would be happy with the quality. Please email me back if you are interested. Thank you for your time.
- Kathleen Hubert
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002374243662
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:58:45 +0000
I thought you’d like to know that I posted a link to your site in the first comment on the below article.
They didn’t like it much, deleted it and banned my account altogether.
It didn’t abide by “community standards.”
HA!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/16/margaret-thatcher-meryl-streep#start-of-comments
I wonder if they classified it as hate speech or sexism?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/community-standards
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:05:52 +0000
YOU’RE GOING TO BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY FOR LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DEATH OF MRS. THATCHER. SHE IS LOVED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE UK. PUBLISH A FORMAL APOLOGY AND DELETE THE SITE, YOU VILE LITTLE SOCIALIST SCUMBAG.
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:48:48 +0000
Thanks for your comment. I leave you with a quote from the great Clarence Darrow: “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:04:20 +0000
Bloody Hell, I thought she was already dead!
a whole bottle of whisky gone for nothing.
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:03:38 +0000
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