Darren Beale

Hello and welcome.

Some bullet points about me

Professionally I divide my time between running my company Siftware who are UK PHP developers creating and maintaining web applications and heading up systems R&D for Insite Energy who are district heating specialists providing metering and billing services to customers connected to low carbon district heating networks.

I’m also behind Geekowarriors which is a long term project still in its infancy; it has a focus on permaculture & appropriate technology.

Originally I’m from Bristol but in my mid 20s I moved to London where I ended up spending 10 years. I left in 2006 and after a number of moves to different parts of the country I’ve settled in Llanidloes which is in mid Wales where I live on a rented smallholding with my wife, 3 kids, 3 neighbours, a couple of rabbits, 12 or so chickens (depends if we’ve eaten one or not) and 3 cats.

Siftware has offices in Llanidloes town hall though I do work from London too.

Between 2003 and 2008 I used to blog here but that’s been deleted as I felt it contained to much irrelevant personal detail. However I do sometimes blog over on Becoming Self Sufficient on matters relating to fossil fuel depletion and resilience.

I am a regular Twitter user, I have a Last.fm profile and I occasionally login to Linkedin. I do have a Facebook profile but I’ll only accept an invite if we know each other well.