A little about me:
Hi my name is Leighton, I live in the UK and work in I.T. The majority of my work involves working with open source software, which is why my operating system is Debian and my favourite GUI is Gnome. To give you a quick mental image of myself, my co-worker is a huge Simpson’s fan and refers to me a lot as ‘Frank Grimey Grimes’. I don’t see it myself, maybe it’s the glasses. I also watch way too much TV - mostly comedies and science fiction. I am also extremely addicted to reading from Slashdot.
About shellscript.co.uk:
This blog Is just a random collection of posts, mostly about things that I find of interest, (The Geeky Things: Science, technology, computers, TV, art … etc) hopefully you will find them interesting too. One thing I would like to do is fill shellscript.co.uk with a lot of Tutorials & HOWTOs - not that I am an incredibly technical person or a good writer. I just know how helpful they can be.
Shellscript.co.uk is currently running on WordPress using the k2 theme. The design is a little minimal because I threw it together quickly I just wanted to get away from the default k2 theme and add a little personality of my own to it. I know it is not that great and maybe in the future I’ll get bored with it and change it, but for now it will do. 
What’s a shell script:
For those of you who are not that sure what an actual shell script is, here is a brief description taken from Wikipedia. If you are not a technical person, it will most likely baffle you further.
A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system. It is often considered a simple domain-specific programming language. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text. Usually, shell script refers to scripts written for a Unix shell, while COMMAND.COM (DOS) and cmd.exe (Windows) command line scripts are usually called batch files.
Many shell script interpreters double as a command line interface, such as the various Unix shells, Windows PowerShell or the MS-DOS COMMAND.COM. Others, such as AppleScript, add scripting capability to computing environments without requiring a command line interface. Other examples of programming languages primarily intended for shell scripting include DCL and JCL.
