William Bland

I was born in the UK and studied there, at the University of Nottingham, for a PhD in Mathematics. I later moved to the US and now live in Mountain View, California, and work as a computer programmer at justin.tv. You might be interested in my blog.

Some things I like:

Computing: I taught myself programming when I was nine years old on a ZX81, and I've been making computers do fun things ever since. I'm a big fan of Lisp. I once embedded a Scheme interpreter in the Linux kernel (why not?). I've also written a search engine for Lisp documentation, and an online multiplayer crossword game.
Photography.
Rock-climbing and kayaking.
Listening lots of music - most recently Boards of Canada, Plaid, Orbital, Prokofiev, Aphex Twin and Philip Glass.

Interesting links:

The video on the left is live from the office I work in (I'm usually in the top-left corner).
Paul Graham writes some excellent essays.
Peter Norvig's Java Infrequently Asked Questions should be read by every aspiring Java programmer, as should Jamie Zawinski's Java rant.
Planet Lisp has great Lisp news, and the Emacs Wiki answers most Emacs questions.
Adam Beguelin writes a good blog about hackers and technology.
Jimmy Moore has an awesome new chat site.
Peter Seibel's book makes an awesome Common Lisp tutorial.
I'm not a transported convict, medical practitioner and surgeon, politician and farmer. That's another William Bland.

If you want to contact me, email is best.