Hi, I’m Jon Leighton

I am available for hire. Please visit my work website for details.

A photo of me

This site is a slightly egotistical repository of stuff to do with me. Here’s a bullet point summary:

Studying Computer Science at St Anne’s College in Oxford
Ruby/Rails programmer, currently taking a break but willing to consider interesting short-term freelance prospects
Keen on photography, but I don’t upload to my Flickr nearly often enough. Hope to do a second degree in photography one day in the future when I am freed from the clutches of my first one and have had sufficient time to regain sanity
Involved in climate change related grassroots activism, particularly the Climate Camp
Rarely update this website and tend to wonder what it’s for when I do

I like:

The Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer
Red wine, dark rum and real ale
Rock climbing
Beautiful code
Strong black real coffee with no sugar

I dislike:

Neoliberalism/Capitalism
Arms companies and the fact that my university has shares in most of them
Cars, planes, coal-fired power stations, etc
Static typing (in programming languages)

(For geeks: I apologise that this website isn’t properly valid HTML 4.01, but I don’t apologise much as I have better things to do and consider it my personal little act of rebellion against those who blindly code self-closing tags into their libraries like a bunch of sleep-walking sheep.)