{"id":574,"date":"2008-07-10T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?page_id=574"},"modified":"2012-02-18T22:23:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T06:23:42","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/andrew.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of me\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><br \/>\nHi, and welcome to this collection of almost entirely original bits and pieces that I like to call my blog. Here you will find stories I have written, programs that I have written or want to write, photos, rants, ramblings, reminiscences, recipes, silly ideas and all sorts of other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I have been a software developer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/\">Mentor Graphics<\/a> since they bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/embedded-software\/codesourcery\">CodeSourcery<\/a>, and work mostly on GNU toolchains. I used to work for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\">Microsoft<\/a>, mostly on Visual Studio. I live in Seattle in Washington State, USA. I am married and have one son, Alexander (born 28th November 2006) and one daughter, Penelope (born 2nd September 2009).<\/p>\n<p>I have a Masters in Physics from Cambridge University, and try to bring insights from my scientific background to the software development process.<\/p>\n<p>I have also occasionally been involved in theatrical pursuits with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextsteptheater.com\/\">Next Step Theater<\/a> (now sadly defunct) and run a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/shakespeare-50\">Shakespeare reading group<\/a> which meets every other week.<\/p>\n<p>Why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\">http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/<\/a>? Well, &#8220;reenigne&#8221; is the reverse of &#8220;engineer&#8221; and one of my particular talents is reverse-engineering &#8211; taking a computer program and producing a precise description of exactly what it does and how (usually in the form of &#8220;source code&#8221; &#8211; a particularly useful form which can be understood by (some) humans and computers). My most successful attempt at reverse engineering has resulted in the creation of the &#8220;Remastered&#8221; version of the classic 1983 game by Windmill Software, Digger. You can find out more about this at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digger.org\">Digger website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, and welcome to this collection of almost entirely original bits and pieces that I like to call my blog. Here you will find stories I have written, programs that I have written or want to write, photos, rants, ramblings, reminiscences, recipes, silly ideas and all sorts of other stuff. I have been a software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-574","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}