Who is this Guy?
Hi, I’m Des. Thanks for visiting. This page is an accumulation of the various bits and pieces of me around the net. I have accounts under the name destraynor on pretty much every worthwhile web application, and also some pretty weak ones.
My main technical interests are user experience design (UXD), Education and Programming. Thoughts and articles related to all of them appear on my blog.
I live in Dublin, Ireland, and am 27 years young. People mainly come here to read my blog, please comment if you like it.
You can contact me at destraynor [at] gmail [dot] com. I'll write back to you on the same day, so give it a shot!
My Job
I have none at the moment. I am working on that though :) On the plus side, I’m free for a coffee
Interests
When I don’t have a keyboard in front of me, my interests are playing soccer, hiking (well realistically it's just walking through Glendalough), and nights out in Dublin. When I do have a keyboard in front of me, I tend to do the following…
Read really good websites, and novels of questionable quality
Check out my current list of wesbites. Every 6 months or so I delete them all, and re-enter them from memory, it helps me maintain a reasonable size list that I actually get through. When there is nothing out there I’ll either re-read classics, visit recommended blogs, or on a really bad day trawl through digg, reddit and slashdot.
I read trash crime fiction novels. Lee Child, Karin Slaughter, Michael Connelly, Patrick Kellerman, Robert Craig, Mo Hayden, and more. Basically if there is a lead character with a keen eye for detail, and a shitload of bodies, then I've read it, or it's on the list.
Mess around on other webites
Other than my blog, I’ve left my mark at a few other sites…
- My Del.icio.us Bookmarks
- Bebo (Irelands version of my space or facebook)
- My Linked In Profile
- Twitter (I do have spare time)
- Bigulo, my web 2.0 Bebo Search application. (co-created with Andrew Page).