I guess I should start at the beginning but that sounds too simple so lets delve right in.<\/p>\n
PyroBrit ?<\/strong> I cannot really lay claim to thinking this name up from scratch.\u00a0 It came about after stumbling accross a blog run by Tom called LinuxBrit<\/a>. Like Tom, I too have a passion for Linux but my primary passion after hacking computers is Pyrotechnics in which I run my own Fireworks Company (Cotswold Fireworks Ltd<\/a>). So along with being British (and proud of it!), PyroBrit was born in 2000.\u00a0 Wow, the same year I got married!<\/p>\n Fireworks before Marriage ?<\/strong>\u00a0 Certainly Fireworks were in my life well before I even dreamed of getting married.\u00a0 I can remember my first fireworks at 4 years old with my parents in the back garden.\u00a0 Let’s just say I was hooked and after countless years of watching these companies produce displays where I lived, it was my turn in the early ninties.\u00a0 In 1998 I met my future wife (Sharon) and at the time I was booked to spend a week at the Pyrotechnics Guild International (PGI<\/a>) in the USA.\u00a0 It didn’t happen.\u00a0 They say “love conquers all” and having cancelled the plane flight, I used the money saved to buy the engagement ring.\u00a0 One day I will get to the PGI.<\/p>\n Children ?<\/strong> Lucy and Hannah. Two gorgeous girls who along with Sharon, fill my life with all the emotions any sane person should ever need.<\/p>\n Computers ?<\/strong> It’s strange as my father was a computer programmer in Cobol yet I had no inkling that I would be drawn to computers as a career.\u00a0 At the age of 11 I really thought my career would be in the military until one rainy day during lunch I walked into a maths classroom and set my eyes on an Apple II being unboxed. The schools first computer.\u00a0 Mr Bell whom I always believed to be a fearsome teacher promptly asked me to take a seat and try it out.\u00a0 And so became the remainder of my school life spending near every minute of my lunch breaks in front of a green screen monitor.<\/p>\n Career ?<\/strong> It’s been a long one so lets make this entry short and tie up this posting.\u00a0 I’m sure there will be plenty more blog posts about the problems I experience on a day to day basis in my job as a Production Systems Specialist.\u00a0 A glamorous job title but essentially I support and maintain the server hardware and OS systems.\u00a0 Primarily VMWare, NetApp, MS Exchange and Citrix, both Xen-App and Xen-Desktop which I am grudgingly beginning to enjoy.\u00a0 IMHO, Citrix is a whole world of pain and requires a very large hammer to polish it.<\/p>\n That will do for the moment.\u00a0 I haven’t even ,mentioned Quadcopters, hacking, Arduino, Mame and more Fireworks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I guess I should start at the beginning but that sounds too simple so lets delve right in. PyroBrit ? I cannot really lay claim to thinking this name up from scratch.\u00a0 It came about after stumbling accross a blog run by Tom called LinuxBrit. Like Tom, I too have a passion for Linux but […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrobrit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrobrit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrobrit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrobrit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrobrit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrobrit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrobrit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrobrit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrobrit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}