Other stuff

My website has been around, in one form or another, since 1998. During this time, I’ve created a lot of resources, some of which are linked from this page. Other projects are available from The ZAP Group webserver itself. Enjoy!

Christianity

I have believed in God all my life, in a large part due to the godly upbringing given to me by my wonderful parents. However, I still had to make my own decision whether I would trust and follow God—which I did when I was seventeen, being baptised in the Holy Spirit and in water. I am a member of and serve at the Slavic Evangelical Pentecostal Church in Lidcombe, Sydney.

• [PDF] Bible Reading Plan Bookmarks. These are also available in Russian and in German.
• [PDF] План чтения Библии за один год.

Motorcycling

I love motorcycling! After many years of patiently waiting for the right moment, I obtained my rider’s licence in 2006. Since then I have travelled over 263,800km (as at May 2023) around parts of New South Wales, ACT, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and Northern Territory. Yes, Western Australia is on my list!

• My BMW F750GS adventure bike, purchased in May 2023. My previous bike (the BMW F700GS) was so good, I bought its successor! I have a map of every ride I’ve done on this bike available for your viewing pleasure, as well as a partial map of every ride I’ve done on all my bikes.
• My old BMW F700GS adventure bike. I absolutely enjoyed owning this bike, from September 2017 to June 2023, riding a total of 102,397km—the best bike yet!
• My old Honda VFR800 road bike. I had this bike for ten years—from May 2007 to May 2017—and ended up riding it for 102,429km, mostly in long road trips. A great bike…
• My old Honda SL230 road/trail bike. I owned this bike from August 2006 to September 2017—my very first motorcycle! I ended up riding it for 58,413km, including 6053km on dirt roads.

Professional interests

I currently work for UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales) as a Research Computing Support Engineer dealing with High Performance Computing. I have also worked as a research engineer in, amongst other things, biomedical electronics, Linux kernel programming (VMM) and robotics.

• [PDF] Introduction to Linux and High Performance Computing course notes (also available as a [ODP] LibreOffice Presentation). A [MP4] video recording (and an [MP4] older version) is also available.
• [PDF] How to share your files on HPC systems presentation (also in [ODP] LibreOffice Presentation format). A [MP4] video recording is also available.
• [PDF] Installing software on HPC systems presentation (also in [ODP] LibreOffice Presentation format). A [MP4] video recording is also available.
• [PDF] Optimising Matlab, GPUs and Raijin presentation (also in [ODP] LibreOffice Presentation format).
• [PDF] Professional résumé (updated only as needed)

I have been a heavy Emacs user for almost twenty five years. You might be interested in my [TXT] init.el and [TXT] .Xresources configuration files: over 2600 lines of code and settings tuned for Emacs under X11, the Linux console, Windows, macOS and even old VT-style terminals… These files contain a theme very reminiscent of the old Borland IDE tools.

I worked for the (then) School of Electrical Engineering at UNSW for almost eight years. During that time, I helped design a course for third-year electrical and computer engineering students, ELEC2041/COMP3221 Microprocessors and Interfacing; I created the Digital Systems Laboratory Companion CD-ROM as part of that course. Some of the material on this 2003-era CD-ROM is still used today around the world.