====== Samuel Penn ======

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I'm a Java/EDMS software developer living in Hampshire, England, and currently working at Aiimi as a Livelink consultant. I've also done with [[http://www.alfresco.com|Alfresco]], Hyperwave, Documentum and FileNET. I've been working in document management for almost 15 years. Before that I studied Computer Science/AI at Edinburgh University, and prior to that I wrote various games and simulations in assembler and BBC Basic.

Hobbies include gaming (computer games, roleplaying games, wargames and boardgames), reading, managing my Linux servers and programming overly complex simulations of the universe. I have a couple of Sourceforge projects, [[http://mapcraft.glendale.org.uk/|Mapcraft]] and [[http://yagsbook.glendale.org.uk/|Yagsbook]], an open source RPG called [[http://yags.glendale.org.uk/|Yags]] and I wrote the [[http://www.glendale.org.uk/cities|Cities Mapping Project]].

^ Email | [[mailto:sam@glendale.org.uk]] |
^ IM (XMPP/Jabber) | xmpp:sam@glendale.org.uk |
^ Homepage         | [[http://www.glendale.org.uk/]] |

Other places I can be found:
  * [[http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SamuelPenn|HantsLUG]]
  * [[https://sourceforge.net/users/samuelpenn|Sourceforge]]
  * [[http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/samuel-penn/14/963/a50|Linked In]]

Photograph collection:
  * [[http://dev.glendale.org.uk/gallery/]]

Previous identities (no longer valid, but I can still be found in mailing list and Usenet archives):
  * sam@bifrost.demon.co.uk
  * samuelp@aisb.ed.ac.uk
  * smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk

===== Some Lists =====

  * [[/user/samuel_penn/books]]
  * [[/user/samuel_penn/ps3]]

===== Things I'm Doing =====

  * Working out kinks in the Yags martial arts system.
  * Painting lots of 25mm SF miniatures.
  * Figuring out how best to manage my backups

==== Software ====

  * [[http://mapcraft.glendale.org.uk/]] - Mostly working on software to randomly generate a detailed universe for a Traveller campaign, including world maps for several hundred thousand worlds.

==== Reading ====

My reading time is currently very limited.

  * **Accelerando**

=== Previous ===

  * **Flat Earth News**
  * **The Origin of Species**
  * **Hitchhiker**, a biography of Douglas Adams
  * **Them**, by Jon Ronson
  * **The Men Who Stare at Goats**, by Jon Ronson
  * **The Emotion Machine**, by Marvin Minsky.
  * **In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind**, a book about how memory (and the mind) works from a biological perspective. Quite interesting, though I'd prefer it to skip the autobiography bits.
  * **Sniper**, a book about the history and tactics of sniping. Straightforward and an interesting read.

==== Gaming ====

  * **Dark Heresy**, in the middle of a campaign.

Previously:

  * **Traveller**, running a Traveller game using [[http://www.glendale.org.uk/yags|Yags]].
  * **Legend of the Five Rings**, playing a Unicorn battle maiden.