This is the personal home-page of phil jones, with guest slots for friends and fellow travellers.

My Online Life

ThoughtStorms is my personal wiki. A compost heap for random thoughts and ideas. (As of late 2005 password-protected due to wiki-spam, ugh!)
Blahsploitation is my weblog. More arbitrary thoughts, links and venting on current events.
Platform Wars is my weblog about, well, platform wars, theory and practice.
SmartDisorganized. Consciousness raising for Smart, Disorganized Individuals, SdiDesk and GeekWeaver news. Plus anything else wiki and some thinking about MicroISVs.
My Tribe Profile if you want to network with me :-)
interstar@gmail.com - is my public email address.
Twitter account

My Professional Life

... is in flux since I moved to Brazil. I'm mainly a programmer who has developed database-backed websites and desktop applications. I've also been paid to write ballet music and teach MBAs about weblogs, wikis and Edge Competences.

I worked for two years as a substitute professor at the University of Brasília, teaching undergraduate courses on "Advanced Programming" (the down-and-dirty C course), "Object Oriented Programming" (in Java) and "Programming Languages" (comparisons between C, Java, Python, Haskell, Prolog, XML, Javascript and anything else that caught my attention.)

I'm now have a full time job doing a range of project management type stuff in an enterprise software company. I seem to spend most of my time tracking things in spreadsheets and making coffee.

Sometimes I'm available to hire. Generally, I can write Python, PHP, Perl, Java, C++, Visual Basic, Smalltalk, SQL, Javascript etc. But I vastly prefer scripting languages. And if you're building high-level applications for customers with continuously changing requirements, I recommend that you should too. (WARNING : I'm an opinionated employee, who's likely to think a lot about how you do things. ;-) )

My Coding Life

GeekWeaver - the software which this page and a lot of this site is written in. GeekWeaver is a program to create web-sites, unashamedly aimed at geeks rather than mere mortals. If you've always hated that fact that HTML doesn't have a way of defining your own abstractions, then GeekWeaver is for you. Everyone else, stay well clear.
SdiDesk is a personal wiki-like notebook for Windows (I know, sorry) with some other cool stuff like basic diagramming. You can download it here. Version 0.2.2 came out a couple of years ago. It's gone a little bit dormant although it can be incredibly useful.
Gbloink! - the fun, experimental music software.

My Musical Life

Gbloink! - the fun, experimental music software.
I've made amateur "bedroom" electronica for most of my adult life ....
BeatBlog - my weblog of beats and musical sketches from around 2001 - 2003

Alt.Money

I'm fascinated by money : what it is, and how it works. I'm a co-founder of the OPTIMAES project to investigate alternative currencies and economic systems. I can also be found posting regularly on the Alt.Money tribe.

Other Interests

These are some other things I think about too much and bore my friends by trying to talk about :

"Organic" architecture and the emergent organization of cities and societies
Wikis and personal hypertexts. (And, naturally, the rest of the web 2.0 suite of weblogs, YASNs, syndication feeds, mashups etc.)
Modules, granularity, abstraction, anarchy, systems, patterns, form.
Individuals and how to recognize them.
The coming Netocracy

All of which get discussed on my wiki

This page is at http://www.synaesmedia.net/