About Me

My name is Simon Horman, though most people call me Horms. I am from Sydney, Australia. I live in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan where I work for VA Linux Systems Japan. In a past life I spent some time living in San Francisco, New York and Silicon Valley in the USA.

In 2007 I was married to Chizuko

Coding

For most of my professional career I have worked with Open Source and Free Software, initially as a system administrator, and then as a programmer. I mainly work with networking, as I think the way that this brings people together is really interesting. However, more recently I have been doing more work on the Linux kernel, as a member of the team that maintains the Debian kernel packages. I work with free and open source software because I believe that it breaks down barriers to people accessing technology, and makes better technology by allowing any interested party to audit or improve the code.

Fun projects that I have recently been thinking about include how to make input methods, dictionaries and in general multi-lingual environments on Linux easier to use. And how to grow their underlying knowledge base using the kind of collaboration that open source software development enjoys. I've also been thinking about how a new string representation might work with C, that is something more structured than a null-terminated series of bytes, that would allow scatter-gather techniques to be used.

In a nutshell, my goal is to write exellent software that is free for all to modify, enhance, scrutinise and enjoy.

Projects

• kexec-tools
• Kexec for Xen IA64
• The Linux Virtual Server Project
• The Linux-HA Project
• Perdition
• iproxy
• Super Sparrow
• more...

Vergenet

In my "spare" time, I work on Vergenet a test network that I run with a little help from my friends.

Photos

One of my hobbies is to take photos, which is a nice way to keep things share experiences when traveling. Tho photo of me on this page was taken in the Imperial Palace Gardens in Tokyo by Alex. My photos can be found in my gallery.

Ramblings

If you want to see what I have been up to take a look at my, sporadically updated news.

Contact

I totally love it when people get in contact with me, please send messages and livestock to:
Horms <horms at verge dot net dot au>

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