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Welcome to my online home, in which I talk about myself in the third-person in order to sound grand and important.

If you’re looking for my technical background, I suggest the Tech page.  On the other hand, my books can be found – perhaps unsurprisingly – at Books.

While I’m a whizz in the kitchen, specialising in authentic Italian cuisine, I’m not the famous TV chef.  If you’re looking for him, you want jamesmartinchef.co.uk.

If you’re interested in getting in touch, go ahead and email me at jm AT NOSPAMjamesmartin.name – simply replace AT with @ and remove NOSPAM and the spaces.

If you like the images that go with the two main pages, they’re both from Flickr.  The code image is by christiaancolen and the books image is by geishaboy500.

Tech

A Linux expert of some twenty-five years’ standing, James has experience of managing all the usual stuff you’d expect from an experienced Sys Admin, as well as the latest Devops tools – you know the things, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jenkins and Packer to name but five. He’s got the security chops too with firewalling and …

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Books

An author of science-fiction with a literary sensibility.  James’ debut novel, Shockwave is available in paperback and Kindle. Described as “JG Ballard meets Franz Kafka,” Shockwave is a chilling, dystopian view of the world and explores themes of loss and abandonment. A major disaster on a UK motorway is investigated by three eye-witnesses, two journalists and …

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