Phil Thane
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
I have been freelance since January 2006, following many years of part-time freelancing whilst doing full-time jobs.
I started writing in the 1990s, I was a Design & Technology teacher at the time specialising in the high tech end of the UK D&T syllabus - electronics, computer aided design, computer control and so on. I wrote several pieces for the Times Educational Supplement and three little D&T Project books for an educational publisher.
Techies that are more than semi-literate are quite rare and being one of them landed me a job with a small software company where I was nominally Support Manager but with no-one to manage since I did all the support. I also wrote; catalogue blurbs, advertising copy, advertorials for trade mags, training courses, user guides. And I started freelancing for computer magazines.
By the end of 2005 the tension between freelancing and salaried work was getting a bit much and following a disagreement with my employer about a potential conflict of interest I left and went solo.
PORTFOLIO
Regulars
MicroMart (every week for >4 years)
PC Utilities (every month for 2 years)
Biofuels International (Every issue for >2 years)
Books
Occasional
Websites
LinuxForums (Until they went 100% free content!)
Linux.com (Until the reduced the fee too much!)
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What Is Linux?
Have you got Linux on your Smartphone, PDA or Netbook, and wondered why and what it is? Is your employer moving to Linux and free software? Do you need info fast?
Oct 13, 2009
- Phil Thane
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