The owner and creator of this website is Rodney Breen, who was born in 1959 in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at University College, Dublin, and remembers U2, The Boomtown Rats, and Roddy Doyle, all of whom were starting out around that time. None of them, however, remember him.

In 1987, Rodney moved to London, where he worked for a while as the world's worst archivist. Then he went freelance as a video producer. He has also worked at other things. Once he worked on a building site (as a typist), on a comedy website (a dot com disaster), on a talent database website (another dot com disaster), and as a graphic designer and laminator (he never did find out which was his main job). He once worked for the BBC. They have not asked him to return, except perhaps with a lawyer present.

Much of this will be known to long time readers of life as it happens, the online journal which began in 1998 when few people in the British Isles were doing that sort of thing. This is now a weblog, which everyone has these days.

He has bluish eyes, brown (sometimes blond) hair and spectacles. He has all his own teeth (and bloody expensive they were).

He cannot swim, drive a car, or ride a bike. He can bend his fingers back further than most people, though.

The spectacles are not brown or blond. Obviously.

Oh yeah, he really hates it when people write about themselves in the third person. Pretentious wankers.

And he refuses to abide himself by the extraordinary high standards he applies to everyone else.