My name is John Conners. I spent the first 24 years or so of my life living in Fife, Scotland where I developed a slightly unconvincing Scottish accent, an appreciation of cold winters, a love of mountains and the outdoors and a ‘live life in the moment’ attitude. Amongst other things.
I now live in Yorkshire where I have developed an appreciation of rain (it never stops raining), the ability to do the most unconvincing Yorkshire accent in the world (it sounds okay to me but apparently it’s terrible) and a passion for real ales. Amongst other things.
I spend most of my free time playing football, mountain biking, hiking, running, doing yoga and generally keeping fit. My other passions in life are photography and music – I’m never far away from a camera and barely a moment goes by that a song isn’t bouncing around inside my head. I also have an impossibly cute and well-behaved Lhasa Apso (that’s a type of impossibly cute small dog) called Billy. If you meet me in the real world all I’ll do is show you photos of him and talk about him. If you meet him in the real world that’s all you’ll want to talk about too!
I’m a software developer by trade and that can also spill into my free time – see the My Software section of this site. Back in 2004 I wrote a piece of software that changes your PC’s background picture at specified intervals and released it for free. I’m no good with names so I called it John’s Background Switcher. Over time I’ve expanded the functionality from the many suggestions I’ve had from people using it and now you can choose photos from a variety of sites like Flickr, smugmug, Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Vladstudio and RSS feeds as well as your local machine. It’s proved rather popular much to my surprise with many hundreds of thousands of users and I've even built a Mac version you can get from the App Store!
I started this blog way back in 2002 – when I started nobody had heard of the word “blog” or understood why they’d want to do it, how times have changed. I don’t take myself too seriously so bear that in mind – if I write something that makes you think I’m being an arrogant git I’m probably joking! Most of my posts accept comments so you can tell me what you think or that I was talking rubbish and if that’s not enough then feel free to contact me and tell me more. If you want to get a feel for the sort of things I write about and a bit more about me, I reckon these three posts just about cover the lot:
This site is my little corner of the internet and contains my ramblings, photos I’ve taken and stories from my past, present and imagination. Enjoy!
