---
title: About Me, Greg K Nicholson
date: 2018-01-14 21:27
status: published

tags:
  - Greg K Nicholson
  - autobiography
  - Great Britain
  - Darlington
  - County Durham
  - Hartlepool
  - university
  - York
  - the University of York
  - Derwent College
  - physics
  - Manchester
  - the financial services sector
  - quality assurance
  - web design
  - social media
  - Scuttlebutt
  - Matrix
  - email
  - lowest common denominator
  - caveat

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I'm Greg K Nicholson.
You can call me “Greg”.

I was born on 3 December 1985 (at about 14:50),
in Darlington, County Durham, Great Britain.
I lived there until 1998, and then we moved to Hartlepool,
where I grew up. (A bit.)

In 2004 I went to [the University of York](https://york.ac.uk/),
where I was affiliated with Derwent College.
(It *was* actually the best college.)

I studied Physics with Astrophysics, arguably not hard enough.
I came away with a <abbr title="Bachelor of Science">BSc</abbr>
and an appreciation that
you can't understand the world by looking at it in ever-smaller chunks.
When you look at one scale, you only learn about that scale.

I stayed in York until 2011.
I lived in the Fishergate area, near the River Ouse Millennium Bridge.
I like York. It was always a pleasant place to be.

In 2011 I moved to Manchester
in search of a job that didn't involve the financial services sector.
That job ended up being quality assurance for a web design company,
which I still do, though for a different company now.
(People pay me to criticise websites. 18-year-old-me is astonished.)

These days you can find me at none of the usual social media sites,
because they're all trying to centralise communication,
and I don't think a few organisations should have that much control.
Instead, I'm on [Scuttlebutt](https://scuttlebutt.nz/) (search; you'll find me).
I'm also on [Matrix](https://matrix.org/).

You can email me at <var>pretty-much-anything</var>`@gkn.me.uk`.
I usually use `greg@`,
but any other address will work too.
Email: sometimes you've got to appreciate the lowest common denominator.

There's a lot of stuff on this site from a long time ago,
which I don't necessarily stand by.
The datestamp is a caveat.
There's also some stuff I *do* stand by,
and this isn't labelled distinctly from the other stuff.
Such is life.