My name is James Eaton-Lee, and this is what passes for my website these days. I work with technology, and I presently live in Scotland, somewhere north of Edinburgh (where Ido a fair bit of work). I have a wife and two kids, I'm tall, I have long hair and a beard, and I use linux (as well as other operating systems!). Yes, I am a card-carrying member of the League of the Long Haired Smellies. Actually, I'm not smelly. And I don't carry a card. But I am a free software user, and I do have long hair.

This page constitutes the whistlestop tour of who I am, which is what I figure most people coming here may be interested in. There are other things here too...

I'm quite lucky to have a wife (Lanna!) accommodating of extreme geekish behaviour.. it takes a special sort of person to put up with me enthusing at the federation starship I've just made out of some superglue and a chopped up plastic spork (don't believe me?) or be interested in the scripted random scifi page headers on my website (See!). She also happens to be pretty geeky herself, and also.. well.. pretty pretty. ;) Our kids are pretty awesome too..

I listen to quite a lot of music - mostly EBM/Synthpop, some classic rock, and quite a bit of classical music. Sadly, not much else at the moment - too little time, too much to do. I played clarinet at one point, too..

I work as Security Consultant for a British Security Consultancy. I have a background with a strong emphasis on Infrastructure and Security within the financial sector, and in the past work I've done has ranged from Infrastructure Design work for financial organisations with 100,000+ users to consultancy work for Offshore Construction/Engineering firms, and I've even worked as the IT Manager for a company with two callcenters.

A substantial proportion of my work is fairly Microsoft-centric - Active Directory, ISA Server, IIS, IAS and Exchange are a few products I work with a lot, as well as Apache and many of the common open source web development frameworks. I have worked with some fairly strange platforms too. More on my views on Free and Open Source Software (which I also work with) elsewhere. Since June 2007, I've been a Microsoft MVP in the Windows Server System - ISA Server product category.

I was a co-author for the 2006 edition of Tom Shinder's ISA Server book (the oddly-named Tom Shinder's ISA Server 2006 Migration Guide), and I co-wrote a book on ipcop with my good friend Barrie "zeedo" Dempster. There's an excerpt of this last book available online. I've also contributed to a handful of other books informally, or as a technical reviewer.

I'm a (semi-)regular poster to several mailing lists online (most of the interesting and more high-volume securityfocus.com lists), I was at one point a moderator at security-forums.com, I'm a staff member at bsrf, which I founded almost ten years ago (and rumours of the death of which have been grossly exaggerated!), I'm a staff member at freenode.net, as well as a participant/staff member in a number of channels there, and I've been known to rear my head elsewhere online, too. Phew!