col·o·phon – An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication.From Dictionary.com

Why a Colophon?

Because all the really cool kids have them, and because I believe some people may like to know more about what I use to maintain this site.

Why ‘Neil Turner’s blog’?

Because I’m Neil Turner and this is my blog. For the first 6 and a half years it was called ‘Neil’s World’, which was rather corny and eventually I decided to drop the name. I’ve grown up a lot since 2002 and wanted a slightly more adult name, but I didn’t want to go for something obscure.

What’s this running on?

This site lives on a virtual server running Debian Linux and is hosted by the lovely people at Bytemark, as of March 2010.

When I started blogging in January 2002, it was on Blogger and hosted on whatever free web space I get my hands on. Later that year, I bought this domain and switched to Movable Type, which I used right up until 2011. I briefly used Melody, an open-source fork of Movable Type, and finally moved to WordPress in June 2011 which is what I use now.

Who designed it?

Originally I used my own templates but I felt the design was looking tired, and it wasn’t keeping up with the new features of Movable Type, especially in version 4, so I switched to a variation of the default theme. With WordPress, I’m using the Atom theme.

Who is behind this site then?

Well me, again. As you might have guessed from the domain name, my name is Neil Turner, and at the time I was writing this I was a late-20s graduate working at the University of Bradford in the UK. Although I’m from York, I now live in the small semi-rural town of Sowerby Bridge with my partner, Christine.