About me

I’m Andrew Kember. I live in Dunfermline, near Edinburgh in Scotland, with my wife Lisa and daughters, Miranda and Vanessa.

I’m a Christian who believes that the Bible is the inspired word of God (2 Timothy 3:16). I love listening to inspiring and convicting sermons by Ross Brown, John Piper and Matt Chandler. I can’t do anything to deserve God’s grace, so I’m taking His freely offered gift in the sincere hope that Jesus has died to pay the penalty for my sinfulness and beaten death: Resurrected, renewed and alive forever in a perfect relationship with God. He said I can have that too, and so can you.

I love spending time with my daughters, playing games, running around and teaching them silly dance moves (or just making them laugh). I love doting on my wife: Supplying her with caffeine, helping with her projects and unwinding with her in the evenings.

I’m a bit of a geek, who thinks that clear, simple design is lovely. I like eating tasty food, drinking good wine, watching entertaining films and reading absorbing books. I don’t eat black pudding and I dislike liver and blue cheese. I enjoy reading my Bible and books by people who know the Bible better than me. I like sci-fi and crime thrillers. I listen to Snow Patrol and U2, some quirky bands like Tankus the Henge and Jonathan Coulton and I’m just getting into a bunch of groups who are taking old hymns and doing interesting things to them.

I’m better at thinking up great projects than actually starting them. I’m better at starting things than I am at finishing them. I think I’m going to be mildly eccentric when I get older, so I’m getting some practice in now.

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About the website

This is my personal website, which I use to write about my interests and also use to practise my web development skills.

The website is hosted at http://kember.net by Joyent. If you want to experience the future
direction of cloud computing, get an account, because the good people at Joyent are on the bleeding edge. The registration of the Kember.net domain is ably handled by Pteron net services whose friendly and professional service deserves great credit.

The website content is currently managed using WolfCMS. Before that, I was using some python scripts and
Mako Templates but I spent more time re-inventing the blogging wheel than writing about interesting things. I originally moved away from Textpattern because I wanted a bit more flexibility in my url structure and I fancied a change.

I’ve used some of the icons from Mark James’ "Silk" icon collection and some of the larger icons are from Icon Dock