Opening of the shop is getting closer. We've been held up by a load of planning nonsense from the council, and constant mistakes on their part, but it finlaly looks like we could be opening up sometime in March.

I haven't been taking much freelance work recently, and for good reason. I've recently incorporated Badran LTD with myself and my brother Lloyd as directors, and we are currently setting up an internet and lan gaming centre/cyber cafe in cardiff, trading under the name "Vertical Sync".

If things continue at current pace we should be open by years end, hopefully around late October time.

While there is only a placeholder currently up, the website will be located at http://www.vertical-sync.com

To clarify, i am still trading under badrunner.net, and will continue to accept freelance work, although for the next few months my availability will be diminished.

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.