James Boyden @ jboy.me

Hi, I'm James Boyden. This is my website.

As you can see from the obvious adulation displayed by the two tiny women standing on my shoulder, I am a handsome and charismatic man. Men want to be me, and heterosexual women want to be with me. If you re-arrange the letters in my name, you get “ye James Bond”, which is what my parents exclaimed when I was born, so amazed were they by my neonatal suaveness and my almost-immediate seduction of several attractive female nurses. I've been compared to a young Patrick Bateman, although I have a slightly better haircut.

I also have perfect grammatical awareness — which cannot be taught, by the way.

About Me

I'm a hacker, software developer, postgrad Computer Science & Commerce student and budding entrepreneur from Sydney, Australia. My hobbies include spending long, thankless hours in front of a computer and not getting enough sleep. Sometimes I pray for the sweet release of death, but I haven't had so much luck with that yet.  (I'll keep you posted.)

When I'm not in front of my computer, wasting away my one and only youth, pushing bits around in ways that are only interesting to other nerds, I'm most likely to be:

• asleep (roughly 70% of the time)
• spending time with my beautiful, patient girlfriend Alyssa (about 18% of the time)
• working out, so my computer will be impressed by my physique (perhaps 5%)
• travelling between computers (maybe 4%)
• interacting with friends in a non text-based format, or
• out at one of my favourite nightclubs (which together total approximately 2%).

What do I do with the remaining 1% of my spare time?  IT IS A MYSTERY.

About This Website

The primary purpose of this website is to be a place on the Web for me to put the (nerdy, esoteric) things that I create; its secondary purpose is to ensure that when I do a vanity-search for “James Boyden”, I turn up somewhere in the results.

All in all, customer satisfaction is not exactly… guaranteed. And don't even get me started on the design!

About You

So, why are you still here? Are you a masochist, or a breadth-first search? What is it that you expect to gain by browsing these pages? And, perhaps most importantly, how can we find out?