Please note that this is my old blog, to My New Blog is available at https://www.vanirsystems.com/blog

This blog is kept here for archival reasons as it has a lot of interesting old posts that I am sure people would find useful

# About Me

Hi my name is Daniel.

  • Full Name: Daniel John Lewis
  • Prenominal Title: Mr
  • Postnominal Titles: BSc(Hons) MBCS MACM
  • Tel: +447834355516
  • Skype:daniel.lewis
  • Email:
  • My Personal URI (FOAF/RDFa): https://www.vanirsystems.com/about#me

I am originally from North-West Kent (a town called Erith), I lived in and around Oxford for five years (between 2003 and 2008) and I now live in Bristol. I am a alumnus of Oxford Brookes University, where I received a 2:1 for a BSc(Hons) Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering. I am now a University of Bristol Postgraduate where I am studying for an MSc Machine Learning and Data Mining. I am also elected as the 2008 - 2009 Postgraduate Representative on the Student-Staff Committee at the Engineering Department, this is a volunteer role. I also do some writings via an agency for a few people. Most notably I’ve had featured articles on IBM developerWorks.
My interests within computing include:

  • Intelligent systems and artificial intelligence of all kinds
  • The Semantic Web
  • The Web 2.0 / the Social Web
  • The Intelligent Web (aka Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 and beyond)
  • Web standardisation
  • Open source development
  • Cross platform issues and development

My interests outside of computing involve:

  • My girlfriend Beki
  • Religion, spirituality, belief and faith (particularly Christianity, Esotericism, Buddhism, Humanism, Anthroposophy, Theosophy and Free-thought)
  • Freemasonry
  • Playing guitar, bass guitar, didgeridoo and Ocarina
  • Philosophy and Sophiology
  • Psychology
  • Vegetarianism (I have been a a lacto-ovo vegetarian since October 2002)

More about my interests and life on other pages and posts

This is me:

Daniel Lewis

Last Updated: 2nd December 2008


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