What is this place?
Polytechnic is the online home of Garrett Coakley.
It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.
Elsewhere
Other places I can be found on the web.
- Follow my babbling on Twitter
- See my photography on Flickr
- What I’m listening to via Last.fm
- Recently bookmarked on Pinboard
Recent photos on flickr
Colophon
Garrett Coakley
I’ve been involved in web development since the mid 1990s. Like many peers of a similar vintage, I fell into it more by luck than judgement after some friends asked me if I knew anything about “this web thing”. The fruits of that early endeavour can still be seen thanks to the magic of the Wayback Machine
Since those humble beginnings I’ve worked in most sectors of the industry including programming, project management and user interface development, with a recent focus on community management and user experience.
I’m now the Head Of Online for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, which is a high-falutin’ way of saying I’ve got my fingers in lots of pies.
When I’m not playing guitar, I listen to a hell of a lot of music and attempt to take photographs with a DSLR and a range of very old film cameras. I stand 5′ 9″ in my socks and have an affinity for Guinness.
Just in case you were wondering, I don’t look anything like Zebedee in real life.
G.