Welcome to (parts of) my world

hello

2017-06-11T00:51:57+02:00

Hi. I am Antony Stone. I'm a self-employed computer consultant based in Cologne, Germany and Oxford, England. You can find out more about my professional activities from my LinkedIn page or from my business website. I do what I do for a living because I enjoy it, and I'm good at it, and I like getting paid to do what I enjoy.

miscellaneous

2025-05-08T23:07:38+02:00

Make of this what you will. Some of it is complete; some isn't. XKCD I think should be seen by far more people than it will be. OCD I'm pretty sure that I have a certain degree of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Personally, I don't consider it to be a disorder, but it's certainly a part of me as a person. Maybe I just have Obsessive-Compulsive Personality.

presentations

2016-12-14T16:31:04+02:00

* I talked about "Monitoring the real World" at the Open Source Monitoring Conference in Nürnberg in November 2016 * You can view the slides as a PDF, and you can watch the presentation itself, thanks to Netways publishing all the talks from the conference.

start

2023-10-05T14:12:54+02:00

Hello :-) Here you can find some technical notes on a variety of topics. There is also some miscellaneous stuff. GDPR statement

technotes

2026-03-01T17:05:41+02:00

Many of the following articles contain some of my opinions. If you find you disagree with them, please feel free to publish your own. Some of what follows is also incomplete (occasionally the term "work in progress" is appropriate). I try to mention this at the start of any such article. All articles also have a "last modified" date at the bottom - you may wish to check this in case some of what I have written becomes out of date, simply due to the inexorable passage of time. I apologise fo…