About Jon Silver
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My name is Jon Silver. I’m a male hominid of the species Homo Sapiens, which is currently the dominant species and the one causing the most damage to the climate and ecosystems of the planet Earth, a little rocky planet about 4 billion years old, orbiting a very ordinary small yellow star in a relatively quiet backwater of the Milky Way galaxy. I spend my time caring for my children, each of whom carries one half of my genes, and being a photographer, writer and technology consultant. My patient, long-suffering, lovely girlfriend also seems to think I’m worth spending time with, which is nice. I’m coming up to around half way through my natural life expectancy, having travelled at least forty orbits of the star whose solar system we inhabit, so there’s plenty still to do. If you’re still reading this, then thank you for the patience and curiosity that got you this far, and for taking the trouble to read my words. They are, of course, of no consequence in the grand scheme of things, but writing them helped me spend some of my time productively, and I hope they help you in some way.
I live in Brighton, which until recently was part of the administrative region of East Sussex in England. I work as a freelance photographer and photograph all manner of things; I particularly like photographing weddings. I also own a big photography studio where you can have your portraits, portfolios and commercial photography done, as well as hiring the studio or learning photography from me.
Old careers die hard, and my IT consultancy company lives on, serving SMEs and corporates, and going from strength to strength as one of the few Microsoft Gold Certified Partners in Brighton & Sussex. Its web design & SEO section is also highly active, producing excellent web sites that companies can maintain themselves.
And indeed my writing continues long after the end of my professional associations with the publishers and publications for which I used to write – these days I mostly blog, in all of the places linked from here. If you have been, thanks for reading.
Hi Jon,
As an important Brighton foodie I wanted to let you know about our food and drink festival taking place on May 16th and 17th 2009. The event features demonstrations from Brighton’s top chefs including Sam Metcalfe of Seven Dials and Sam’s Place, Peter Bohannon of English’s and Richard Eldon of Blanch House as well as food and drink masterclasses and a market of speciality producers. I would like to offer your readers a special 3 for 2 ticket offer (tickets normally £6) call see tickets 0871 230 7144 – let me know if you are interested. Best wishes
Roben
Might I point out that, when you say the planet has completed at least forty orbits of the Sun, this is of course measured in an arbitrary denary numbering system arising from the natural coincidence of us happening to have ten fingers/thumbs. It thus constantly amazes me how people think it’s a big deal when the major digit of the aforementioned number, which I believe is known as age, increases by one major digit.