About Me
Who Am I?
I’m Tom J. Nowell, sometimes known on-line as AF. My middle name’s James.
I’m a 19 year old student, studying for a Computer Games Technology Bsc Hons degree (second year) at Liverpool John Moores University.
I’ve been programming for the last 7-8 years in my own time as well as during my studies, and I’m active in various open source communities.
Social Media Fanfare
Where Can I Find Your Work?
Look at the projects/portfolio wiki mini site in the menu on the far right!
How Can I Be Contacted?
If you need to contact me, my msn/windows live is redstar@tbluestar.tk (but this is not a valid email address so chain mails will get an error message sent back), which is also a valid yahoo messenger address.
If you wish to email me send mails to 
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What’s This Site About?
Sometimes I like to share news I come across, or ideas I have. Usually these will fall into the same subjects, games, code, spring community, real-time strategy game development, and so on. Every now and again I’ll make a point through a blog post, usually about an issue that needs sorting, and very likely something to do with the spring engine community. This site also serves as a progress blog for my projects, many of which you can see in their post categories or via looking at the portfolio mini site on the ‘Projects/Portfolio’ page in the menu to the left.
Guest Posts
Guest posts are welcome! An article on something in the spring, glest, or TA communities would be welcomed, as would anything interesting or humorous, all within good taste. If you want to guest post send me a copy and I’ll sort something out =).
Potential Employers
You can message me to get a latest and greatest portfolio and a CV/Resume. I’d prefer contact via email, although if possible a chat on Live messenger/msn or yahoo would be great!
What font is that at the top?
What does AF mean?
I keep getting asked this and it seems to be the one holdover from having the long-winded alias it replaced, but then when I answer it I get the same question applied to the next one. So to answer this once and for all I have devised this ingenious little diagram to explain all my alias/names:
Well your probably thinking I’ve gone mad and this is all a waste of time. But then again I get asked that often and explaining it each and every time is silly and time consuming =\. So why do I have all these alias? Well aside from the problem of having 7 toms in a chat room and figuring out which ones which, I did not like using my actual name online for a long time and used my alias, the most well known of would be Alantai or AF.
It wasnt until a few years ago I realized that all my work is unrelated to my name, and googling myself or my work would give two totally different results. So, wanting credit where due, I started putting my name on my work. I tend to use AF for forum usernames now, and dont use the mountain of other usernames, although they do crop up randomly in places were I have yet to move on to new accounts or were it would be too troublesome to switch such as msn.