Hello there, nice to see you, what on earth are you doing here?

Well, since you are here it's only polite to introduce your host, Kieran Turner, and a good chance to plug the humanitarian aid charity Aid Convoy which I run. I've never ever done anything else which made me feel so useful. It's introduced me to some amazing people, put me in some insane situations, and let me be part of actually saving at least one life. I can't overstate how much that makes all the chaos totally worthwhile. It's also kinda fun...

Apart from that, I'm up to lots of different things, from lingering on the fringes of my old lives first in mainstream politics and later in slightly more grass-roots campaigning; to being a member of a collective called Join Me which exists to perform random acts of kindness. I'm an avid photographer and also a bit of a techie but I somewhat despair of that reputation; however I take a little bit of pride in helping people by being able to speak English rather than techno-babble. Thanks to Aid Convoy I get to drive trucks & Land Rovers, and I confess to being a bit of a petrol-head too — in a productive cause... in fact I'm taking part in two charity rallies in 2009, one the Scumball, around Europe, and the other to Mongolia. I'll put up a sponsorship link here when it's up & running. I'm currently learning to fly, using borrowed wings (I lack my own pair). Finally I'd admit to being a hopeless romantic. This is rarely a helpful trait.

I rather like that this website has been around in one shape or another since 1992. I also put together a website for Aberdeen University's Students' Representative Council in 1994, which was potentially the first student union website in the world. Woo! This one occassionally gets some love and attention. There are a few links to off-site curios on a page of their own. I also ocassionally upload pages I used to call rambles, which the rest of the world now calls blogs. People do seem to read them, so if you're one of those people: thanks!

If you'd like to reach me after all that, try my main email here or if that doesn't work then there is an alternative which will be forwarded to me, or checked by me if the main one is properly broken.

Finally, just in case you're not sure that this Kieran Turner is the person you're looking for... in the days before mere mortals could own domain names, I used to be: kierant@cogs.susx.ac.uk, kierant@syma.susx.ac.uk, usy1001@abdn.ac.uk, u01klt@abdn.ac.uk, kierant@netresult.co.uk & kieran@keymedia.co.uk - amongst other things (in particular, workstation and server sub-domain names at the academic domains above may crop up in Usenet postings.) Maybe that helps you. Oh, and conversely, I've had a little idea to help me.