About
Gali is a technology blog aimed at people both with and without a geeky side to their personality. Gali aims to examine every day aspects of life, from small tasks like looking up information on the Web on the move, to setting up a home media storage and playback solution, to preparing a shopping list, and more. It will consider technology both hardware and software in nature, and possibly think a little outside the geek’s toybox and consider when some tasks are just simply better done without technology.
A simple example, and some waffling explanation, can be found in the first ever blog entry here.
The focus of this blog is to look at what I’ve found works well for me for getting things done in a way that I’m happy with, with maximum efficiency and minimal effort, without sacrificing success.
The name Gali doesn’t mean anything. I bought the domain for something else that never grew to fruition. It may be turned into a clever backronym in the future one day…
My name is Andy. I don’t go for personal details much on pages like this, but I work in a skilled and customer focussed technical support team at a University in the United Kingdom, and pride myself on looking beyond the geek’s view of computing and IT, and seeing how good technology can be put into good practice for people with or without a good grounding in technical.
I can be followed on Twitter as phlipside. I can be found on the Darkmyst and Freenode IRC servers as flip and flip^ respectively. My personal blog is at www.phlipside.co.uk, though these days it contains little more than a feed of my Twitter posts and flickr photos (when I get round to posting to either of those services).