Hi! This page is the human face behind this otherwise very dry blog.

My name is Brian Birtles. I'm a Christian. I'm 30 years old and I'm from Sydney, Australia. I like surfing and swimming, and Korean movies.

I'm currently working for Mozilla Japan and in the past I've worked for export-japan.com in Osaka in Web development, Canon research (CISRA) in Sydney on SVG, and Siemens Mobile Phones in Denmark. My CV has more details.

I studied Software Engineering at UTS, where I worked on SMIL animation in Mozilla as my final project.

Other random stuff about me: I used to speak Danish (I think I've forgotten a lot now!), now working in Japan full-time, but one day I would love to learn Korean.

Well, if that didn't send you to sleep... here's some photos and travel stories that are sure to do the trick:

Cheers to Solutions First for giving me hosting and lots of help with setting up software as I need it. Thanks Andy!