About
Me
Born in France, raised in England. Not really from anywhere.
Loves films, movies, pictures, flicks, talkies etc…
Bit of a closet car bore.
I used to run benspictureoftheday.com, where I took a picture every day for several years.
Now
I’m living in Sheffield with my wife. Recently moved into a creaky old place that is cool but also constantly wanting repair.
To make a living I’m a full-stack developer and jack-of-all-nerds for a human tissue bank.
Contact Me
Feel free to moan, say hello, ask questions or just send me random stuff.
- Email:
ben@bfoliver.com
benoliver999
orbeoli999
on a lot of IRC networks.- Signal:
benoliver.999
XMPP:ben@bfoliver.com
This Website
Like many personal sites I started out wanting to write about anything that came to mind, but nothing came to mind. At the same time, I didn’t want to spend ages setting up a site for nerd-points then just having three 5-year-old posts and nothing more.
So I made a rule to obsessively (and perhaps pointlessly) write about every single movie I’ve watched, and sure enough the movie reviews have been a good way to keep the blog ticking over. It’s more of a useful personal reference for what stuff I’ve seen and when, but also it serves as a way to see how my tastes have changed over the past decade or so since it began.
Since then it’s expanded into book reviews, some game reviews, some food and drink articles and quite a few dull reference articles about nerdy linux stuff. The latter posts have proven to be the most popular based on how much email I get.
Subscribing
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Fonts
This site uses system fonts, but if you have Adobe Source Serif Pro and Source Code Pro installed it will use those and look nice.
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Last updated: 29 April 2024