Who is Horus Kol?

Horus Kol is the electronic alter-ego of Stuart Jones

Who is Stuart Jones?

I’m currently living in Adelaide, although I have travelled a bit since starting my life in a hospital in London.

I moved over here in March of 2007, after leaving my previous job in the UK and being obstructed from embarking on a teaching career there by redtape and clown-like beaureaucracy.

Right now I am working as a web developer – mostly PHP/MySQL/JavaScript, but also working with Perl at times. This was a job role I started moving into at my previous position, where I had been a technical support engineer for just over 6 years, providing solutions and practices for the team there.

Although I am not so active at the moment, I love the outdoors, and spent a few years as an Adult Leader for Reading Explorer Scouts and also helping the local Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Group. I like to get out walking, and on my bike, and I’ve been known to clamber up the odd rock crag or two.

While at the University of Reading, where I got bored of control engineering, and got interested in programming and artificial intelligence, I filled most of my spare time with work or with the local UOTC – a reserve army organisation where I spent just under three years as a “gun bunny” in the Royal Artillery Troop.

It’s taken me a while to get setup in my new country, partly because I went the wrong way round of entering the country on a holiday visa (for my sister’s wedding in 2007), and then applying for residence while I was here. This forced me to be out of work while the application was processed, and I would strongly recommend that anyone seeking residence should apply before moving – you get plenty of time to move afterwards. I ended up doing it the way I did, because of being jobless in the UK.

Now, though, I’ve gotten myself a new camera (two, actually – a compact and a D-SLR) and I plan on traipsing my way around this island that they call Australia, and seeing the sights and sharing them here on Horus Kol.