Matthew John Ernisse is HOT

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
--Leonardo da Vinci

While I am not learning to fly or exploring various far-flung parts of this delightful orb we ride on I have the the privilege of helping others solve interesting techonolgy problems. I also wrote a silly little URL shortener, called uber.hk, some tools to help manage your BlackBerry, track your finances, visualize data, and share your pictures.

If I were asked to summarise myself I'd probably use words like aviator, technologist, whovian, and possibly gamer and geek. I mostly respond enthusiastically to interesting challanges and problems needing solutions.

I generally distrust "the cloud", and have a rather complete personal IT infrastructure that prevents me from ever having to trust my personal data to anyone else. I am an avid BlackBerry user, both their phones and tablets. I do not enjoy typing on screens and only recently broke the habit of using my IBM model M keyboard. I also very much loathe UI design that serves to get in my face, which is part of why I switched from Ubuntu to Mac OS X but just can't get along with iOS.

Outside of technology I enjoy travel, which is one of the reasons I enjoy aviation. At last count I have visited 4 continents, 39 airports, 4 countries and if Google Latitude is to be believed (cross checked with my United Frequent Flyer program, it seems believable) I have travelled almost 105,000 miles in the last few years. At some point I think it would be neat to own a plane, though being a member of the Williamson Flying Club does make it easy to reap the benifits without quite as much of the cost.

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