Keith Bradnam

As a single cell zygote, Keith Bradnam was lucky enough to be endowed with a genome that was replete with genes for curiosity, geekiness, and the ability to make bad puns. However, it would take several rounds of cell division, some blastocyst differentiation, and a complicated delivery before he was able to show any of these abilities to the world at large.

After leaving school, Keith resisted pressure from his elder sibling to "get a job in a bank" and instead found his way to university in order to study ecology. It was here that he realized that he lacked the desire to become a career ecologist and so he transitioned from the sort of science that involved standing around on windy hillsides, to the sort of science that involved sitting down and working at a computer. Keith instantly took to the 'sitting down' part and after a period of several years, finally started making some headway on the 'working at a computer' part.

After several years of sitting down in front of several different computers Keith has since found himself in a position where he was able to write a book that aims to teach the non-programmer how to program ('Unix and Perl to the RESCUE'). He hopes that others will benefit from this text by becoming equally proficient at sitting down in front of computers.