Who am I?
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A few words about me
Hi, as you may have guessed, my name is Thomas Guymer and as you probably have also guessed by now my friends just call me Guymer. I have a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Physics from the University of Durham (I attended Hatfield College) and currently reside in Reading. Whilst growing up in Sheffield I got hooked on climbing and just generally being outdoors, consequently it is something which I try to do as often as I can. However, as you can imagine, whilst at Univeristy, and now as I'm working, there is not much time for randomly wandering off for a walk whenever you want. To this end I try to spend as much time as I can travelling or climbing during my few holidays.
I first got into photography when I was a kid and I used to enjoy taking pictures with my Dad on his old SLR (he has a AE-1 and a T90). I believe that there is something calming and peaceful about taking photos, and it's something which I thoroughly relish. This site contains many photos (all of which I have taken) for you to have a look at. I do not profess to take good photos, just to have been lucky enough to be present to take photos of good things.
I first got into Linux when one of my friends had a dual-booting PC which had openSUSE on it. At the time I was studying for my degree and the use of Linux looked convenient for my programming module. I played around with a Slax Live CD for about half an hour and then decided "puft - just do it" so I downloaded openSUSE 10 and made my laptop dual-booting. I used a dual-booting machine from then on as I did a lot of PHP coding for this website and Fortran coding for my course. It is from these beginings that I have written the tutorials you find on this site.
If you wish to contact me about my photos, tutorials or just about the site in general then please email me at 
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An important fact
Courtesy of the genius which is xkcd. If you actually fully understand that correlation does not mean causality then you are in a minority. This is such an important idea and a scarily small number of people actually abide by it.
My favourite quotes
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
Al Alvarez, 'The Games Climbers Play'
The reason for nature's greatness is that it has forgotten that it was once chaos, but this latter thought can recur whenever need be.
Søren Kierkegaard, 'Either/Or', 'Crop Rotation'
Pain is only weakness leaving the body.
Tom Muccia
It's a round trip: getting to the summit is optional; getting down is mandatory.
Ed Viesturs
It does not matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop.
Confucius
Where else to find me on the internet
deviantART
You can check out my deviantART profile. What can I say? My favourite site on the whole internet, I love it. You can literally spend hours browsing some superb photos and art and never get bored. There is always some new and brilliant work on there.
Steam
You can check out my Steam profile. This is the profile which is associated with my Steam account. This means that it contains all the achievements I have completed on games such as:
...some truly great titles I think you'll agree.
openSUSE
You can check out my openSUSE Wiki profile or my openSUSE Forum profile. openSUSE is the Linux distribution which I use all the time - I really like it. I am starting to join the community as I help out on the Forums and the Wiki. If you've never given Linux a try then perhaps now is the time?
Facebook
You can check out my Facebook profile. This is one of the best social networking sites around. It becomes very addictive and stalker-esque (in a good way). The layout/style of it is perhaps the best thing which sets it apart from the mangled mess that is MySpace.
Amazon
Amazon may seem like a random website to put a link to in this section but the reason is simple: they have wishlists. So, without further ado I present a link to my Amazon Wishlist. If you know me and don't know what to get me for a present then please use it, also, if you found something on this site very useful and wish to show your appreciation then this would be a very cool way to do that - thank you!
Last.fm
You can check out my Last.fm profile. An amazing site which enables you to listen to your own custom radio station and recommends music to you, based on usage data. I cannot believe it's free, it means I have decent music where ever I go, iPod or no iPod, it's really good!
Below you will find a table of my Top 10 artists of all time, based on the number of tracks of theirs I have played.
| Artist | Playcount |
|---|---|
 Arcade Fire |
1,954 |
 Muse |
1,456 |
 Kasabian |
1,356 |
 Zero 7 |
1,267 |
 Lamb |
1,151 |
 The Killers |
1,030 |
 Faithless |
1,027 |
 Air |
905 |
 Snow Patrol |
857 |
 Moby |
740 |
Flickr
You can check out my Flickr profile. A well known photo sharing website. This is now coming second to deviantART about the amount of time I spend on it, so don't be surprised if it doesn't get updated in a while.
Wikipedia
You can check out my Wiki profile although it's not up to much. I have only editted one article on Wikipedia so far, not much I know.
Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree
You can check out my Lonely Planet profile. I only use the Thorn Tree for when I'm off travelling and need some quite impromptu advice or pointers. It's pretty cool.
YouTube
You can check out my YouTube profile. I don't submit anything to YouTube, I just mark some things as my 'Favourites' for future use. Check them out if you want...
MySpace
You can check out my MySpace profile. The 'other' social networking site on the internet. I have a page here because it'd be rude not to. I use Facebook more, and I neglect MySpace, which is why my profile is naff. Use Facebook, it's better.
Google
You can check out my Google profile. This is useful for search results for anyone who wishes to find out more about me. Now, if only Bing and Yahoo! had similar schemes then I could be vendor neutral...
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