About
Well, to rip off a beer advertisement completely, who is Christopher Owen?
I’m part accident, part man. A total video game junky, book worm and connoisseur of the absurd. If there is something totally ridiculous to be said, chances are, I’ve said it already.
I currently work as a senior software engineer at Silverbrook Research.
In a previous career iteration I had the distinct pleasure of being a technical lead at Atlassian Software in Sydney, working as part of the Confluence wiki team. In ages past I was the webmaster and applications developer at the CSIRO, Australia Telescope National Facility. Yes, I even got to use an array of six radio telescopes – and I didn’t damage a thing. Much.
At the 2010 Australian Federal Election I stood as a Secular Party candidate for the federal electorate of Sydney. Please take some time to read my announcement of candidacy. I currently serve as the Membership Officer on the Executive Committee of the NSW branch.
This blog is chiefly an outlet for me on topics such as politics, science, technology, software engineering and video games. It may even at times be funny; I won’t make any guarantees as to which type of funny though.
Welcome to my stream of consciousness and enjoy your stay.
Hook up
- mail@christopherowen.id.au
- Jabber
- oysta@jabber.org.au
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherdavidowen
- oysta
- http://facebook.com/oysta
- PlayStation Network


