I'm a New Zealander, a retired chemical engineer with experience in heavy chemicals, the dairy industry in New Zealand, and education. The last 20 years of my working life I worked as independent consultant mainly in the New Zealand Dairy industry but also undertaking tasks in Canada and the United States, Ireland, Denmark, and Australia. I have been involved with computers and computational systems since 1962 when, as a student, I was introduced to an IBM 1620 computer. My experience extended from stand-alone systems like the 1620 to mainframes made by IBM and Control Data to mini-computers and later micro-computers. The more than 60 years since that time, then, have been little short of miraculous. I never cease to be thankful that I have lived through such an amazing time in history. You can read more about me and my philosophy on the About page.

This personal website is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 5 computer running a Debian Linux operating system. It uses Python within a Flask framework and is served by a Nginx web server which accesses the page information from a Gunicorn web server gateway interface (WSGI). I am working on these pages which will include content such as essays and technical notes about climate change and other subjects and topics which capture my attention—as my header states, these are the ruminations of an octogenarian. If you are interested I also publish on Substack (garykerkin.substack.com) some of which are also published here.