Hello, and welcome

My name is Nik Rivers, and I’m an IT professional living near Reading.  This is my personal website, and started as a sort of mini-project in 2004 when I began dabbling in PHP and MySQL. These days the website lives on my own server running Fedora and Apache, and hosts my journal and a photo gallery.

I have also written a series of guides for configuring a Linksys NSLU2 network storage device as a low-power, multi-use Linux server. The device is no longer in production, but the articles remain popular.

Wotcha doin’ here?

You may have arrived here because I was lazy, and said to you “oh, it’s on my website” while waving my hands in an I-can’t-be-bothered kind of way.  Sorry about that.  You’re probably here looking for the photo gallery or my journal.  Feel free to look around the site.

If you received a digitally signed email from me and want to verify the signature, or you want to send me an encrypted message, you are looking for my RSA certificates.  If you don’t know how to use these, you probably don’t want to.

Otherwise, you’re probably here through no fault of your own, led here by Google or a random link somewhere.  I hope you find what you’re looking for!

How can you contact me?

If you and I know each each other, feel free to add me as a friend on Facebook.

If we are strangers, but you simply must get a hold of me, use the email address in the Facebook box at the top of this page.  If you want to discuss one of the NSLU2 guides, I would prefer that you left a comment on the relevant page.