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Hmm, whats there to say. My name is Charlie Brej, I work for the University of Manchester<\/a>, school of Computer Science<\/a> as a Research Associate<\/a> in the APT<\/a> group. I research asynchronous logic<\/a> but more specifically trying to attain high performance. When I am not doing that I am teaching in labs or fixing machines and trying to solve peoples computer problems. It’s true, I love technology, but not as much as you, you see, yet I still love technology, always and forever. I also love “Free” Software<\/a> as I seem to be using little else nowadays and am always happy to convert people to the good cause. I am into indie rock music and get through rating a couple hundred new tracks each month thanks to Criznittle<\/span><\/a> and Shankly<\/a> <\/span>(thanks guys)<\/span>. I watch a lot of TV documentaries on my MythTV<\/a> box which I watch at 2x speed (1.4x if Sooty is there) which also makes me talk fast and get easily irritated with people who refuse to get to the point. I try to survive without a mobile phone. I love cheap Chinese technology<\/a> but I hate DRM infested devices and people who naively use them. I enjoy a nice cup of Earl Grey<\/a> but refuse to drown it with cow juice. I’m a militant agnostic (I don’t know what’s going on and am damn angry about it), yet I’m a liberal pacifist. I believe in existentialist<\/a> values of Nietzsche<\/a> and Sartre<\/a>, but I am all too human. I love eating a good curry, but I don’t see the point of making them too hot. I love cooking, I hate washing-up. I pretend to know more than I do, I hate people who think they know more than they actually know. I hate all intolerance but I love sickipedia<\/a>. I strive to think outside of the box, but I don’t like the expression “think <\/span>outside <\/span>of the box”. I love Fedora<\/a> but I hate fan-boys. I love beer but I hate tequila.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m a bit contrary. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hmm, whats there to say. My name is Charlie Brej, I work for the University of Manchester, school of Computer Science as a Research Associate in the APT group. I research asynchronous logic but more specifically trying to attain high performance. When I am not doing that I am teaching in labs or fixing machines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}