Well this is my first post, hopefully of many, unless of course beer gets in the way. As way of introduction, my name is Tom Badran, and I am a software engineer.

Recently I left work to go into business for myself as a consultant, so far so good. I've taken a good month off, had a bit of holiday, spent some time learning all the things I missed out on over the last few years. Anyway, more details on that at badrunner.net (well, soon, curretnly that just points back here!). My general expertise is pretty broad, I've worked on things ranging from games programming (including consoles such as the game boy), to big effects rendering farms, and everything in between. Currently, i seem to be doing a lot of work in python, with gtk and turbogears (though obviously not mixed!). Primarily I'm a linux guy, last windows box I worked with properly was back in the late ninties, and since then I've only fought with some of the xp boxes at my old job a few times. I have a pretty low tolerance for poor quality systems, so if you want me for work on the windows platform, it better be really interesting stuff.