About

Hi. I’m Phill Sacre, the creator of this blog. You’ll probably have guessed it already from my cunning use of domain name (phill sacre.me.uk… that can’t just be a coincidence!)

Anyway, if you’re looking for information about me, you’ve come to the right place.

Personal Info

I don’t really want to do a full autobiography kind of thing, but this is the key info: I am currently a student at Oak Hill Theological College, studying ‘Theological and Pastoral Studies’. I am an ‘ordinand’, which basically means I am being sponsored by the Church of England and – hopefully, all things going well with my studies – I will become ordained once I have finished my training. Before coming to Oak Hill we attended Fordham Church, which we can recommend if you’re in or near Colchester and are looking for a church. Sometimes I blog about my Christian thoughts and experiences, but I wouldn’t really like to recommend that to anyone…

In a former life I was a software developer – I studied Computer Science at the University of Essex (graduating in 2004) and then spent my working life up until August 2011 working in a variety of different companies on a variety of different projects. If you’re into that kind of thing, I used to maintain another blog for my J2EE related advice and experiences.

I have been married since June 2006 to Philippa (or Phil for short. Yes, we do have the same name).

I also enjoy music in a variety of forms – you can see more about my musical taste at my last.fm page. I also enjoy attempting to play the piano – to be honest I’m more of a “hit the right notes in roughly the right order” kind of guy, but it’s good fun. I’ve also been learning to play the guitar since January 2009, and I think I’m “getting there” with it! I do play in church / chapel from time to time.

I also like… films (mainly silly comedy films such as ‘This is Spinal Tap’, ‘Dogma’, ‘Airplane’ etc) and TV (e.g. ‘Spaced’, ‘Green Wing’, ‘Black Books’ etc), books (Christian books, as you can imagine, but also books by Max Barry, Scott Adams, Douglas Adams etc), and … that’s more info than you could possibly want to know about me.

To be honest I’m not sure what else to say here, so I’ll leave it there for the time being!

Me on the Internet

Inspired by a friend of mine, I thought I would post up a list of websites which I am involved with.

General

• Twitter – this is how I manage to waste hours of my life.
• Phill’s J2EE Blog – this is my other (no longer mainted) blog for more J2EE-related posts
• StackOverflow.com – this is a question and answer site for programmers. Now I’m not a programmer any more I don’t really contribute to it, but still.
• last.fm profile
• I do have a Facebook Profile which I don’t update very often, but I do check in quite frequently to see wall posts etc
• You can see my photos on my Flickr account

Christian / Religious Things

• I occasionally write articles for Crossring, you can see more info on the Creations section. In fact, just see that section instead!

Software Projects

I don’t really have any I’m updating regularly at the moment.