This domain is my home on the web, a place to publish some things that interest me in my spare time. I hope you find some of it interesting too. Thanks for dropping by.

If you're just passing through then maybe have a look at the blog and the podcast, which are the most frequently updated parts of the site.

A little about me. I was born in South Africa but am currently living in the UK. I studied computer science at the University of Cape Town, a fine ivy-covered set of buildings at the foot of Table Mountain. You could say my formative years were spent imbibing the heady sense of wellbeing that envelops Cape Town on a good day (or smog, on a bad one). At any rate something clearly had a lasting effect on me since I still count myself very much a Capetonian even after being in Britain for ten whole years.

During the week I'm employed to lovingly craft C++ code at the offices of a computer games company called Electronic Arts, in the middle of Guildford. A dream job for some, I keep reminding myself. Since I'm a keen coder some of the stuff on this site relates to that. In my spare time I also like to take photographs, and some of those are on this site too.

Ashton Mason
ash at ashtonmason.net