Welcome!
My name is Matthew Smith, AKA @smiffy (and formerly @smiffytech.) This page is here to assist those arriving from my Twitter profile in finding what they need to know.
If you have decided to follow me on Twitter, please send me an @reply so that I know you are a real person who wants to network, not just another Twitter spammer. (If you are new to Twitter, all you need to do is to start an update with @smiffy - this will then appear in my timeline and I will be able to respond to it.)
Please note that I do not auto-follow (that is, I do not have software set to follow anyone who follows me,) nor do I auto-DM (Direct Message.) Neither do I follow everyone who follows me; before I follow someone, I need to see some value in the relationship. To learn whom I follow and why, you may wish to read my popular articles Smiffy's Rules of Following and Smiffy's Further Rules of Following..
Quick Bio
I feel that my Twitter profile sums me up fairly well, so I will repeat it, with relevant links added:
Freelance accessible web applications developer, IT consultant, creative problem solver, Un*x, Perl, MySQL, foodie, artist, musician, weight trainer. Married with dogs.
Add to this list: Expatriate Brit living in rural South Australia with a passion for equal access & social inclusion, gluten-free cook, occasional vegetable gardener, occasional brewer, electronics & embedded computing hobbyist (when I get the time,) "medically inconvenienced" with what has been labeled as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (Information on how I work with this condition and how I lift weights despite it, may be found elsewhere on this site.)
Professional Résumé
You'll find this over at LinkedIn
Contact
If you want to get in touch and an @reply isn't for you, look down at the very bottom of this page - you'll find an e-mail address. As addresses on this site get spammed fairly quickly, I change them on a regular basis. For more permanent contact information, especially for business purposes, I'd suggest you have a look at the contact page of my business site.
If it's not here and you need to know, ask!
Thank you for dropping by. If you have just started following me on Twitter, please don't forget to get in touch.
