{"id":2,"date":"2009-11-26T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T14:04:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-06T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T11:51:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/helpdesk\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy and Toby are <em>STACS<\/em>, the confusingly-titled duo within the Systems Team of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University.<\/p>\n<p>STACS stands for &#8220;Student Teaching And Computing Support&#8221;.  It fits on the signs better than &#8220;Service-Desk-Academic-Support-Systems-Administration-Software-Development-Teaching-Laboratory-Managers&#8221;.  We used to be called &#8220;helpdesk&#8221;, but people kept asking us to fix their printers for them.<\/p>\n<p>Both of them are alumni of the School who love it here so much they&#8217;re determined not to leave. Toby studied as a Computer Scientist at Southampton.  Andy also studied as a Software Engineer in ECS, then temporarily defected to a More Different Organisation (or two).  He has now regained his senses (at the expense of some sanity) and returned.<\/p>\n<p>Toby likes ARM assembler, table-top roleplay and baking heavy cakes.  Andy likes Perl, anagrams and eating heavy steaks.<\/p>\n<p>Both of them are sysprogs (see also &#8220;sysadmin&#8221;), and so they have a keen sense of irony and a strange sense of humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy and Toby are STACS, the confusingly-titled duo within the Systems Team of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University. STACS stands for &#8220;Student Teaching And Computing Support&#8221;. It fits on the signs better than &#8220;Service-Desk-Academic-Support-Systems-Administration-Software-Development-Teaching-Laboratory-Managers&#8221;. We used to be called &#8220;helpdesk&#8221;, but people kept asking us to fix their printers for them. Both of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/helpdesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/helpdesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/helpdesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/helpdesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/helpdesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/helpdesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/helpdesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/helpdesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}