{"id":2,"date":"2010-09-26T13:04:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T13:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:28:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hullo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hullo!<\/em><\/a> You&#8217;ve followed an old link to get here, and I haven&#8217;t managed to prune them all out, yet. Apologies for the resulting confusion, if any. The original &#8216;About&#8217; section has been chopped into different sections; follow any<sup>1<\/sup> of the links below to carry on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/about\/about-the-diary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>About the <em>Diary<\/em>:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the Origin Story, both for the original pen-and-paper diary, and this non-physical<sup>2<\/sup> incarnation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/about\/about-the-author\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>About the author:<\/strong><\/a> about me (<em>i.e.<\/em>, Phil Cook) and my involvement in the beer industry, as a combination of laying out disclosures of conflicts of interest and establishing my <em>bona fides<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/about\/about-this-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">About this website:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0details on the things I used to make this, and the Creative Commons license which lets\u00a0<em>you<\/em> use what you find here to make things, should you feel inclined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As compensation for this page not being what I said it&#8217;d be when I linked to it (whenever and wherever I did\u00a0<em>that<\/em>), here&#8217;s a superadorable little dinosaur:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6017\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Floyd.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6017\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/about\/floyd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Floyd.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Floyd the little red dinosaur (Malthouse, 5 August 2011)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Floyd, a suitable totem for lost things&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Floyd-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Floyd.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6017\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Floyd.jpg\" alt=\"Floyd, a suitable totem for lost things\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Floyd.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Floyd-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floyd, a suitable totem for lost things<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>1:<\/strong> Or all. Or none. I&#8217;m not the boss of you.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>2:<\/strong> Well, less-obviously-physical, at least. Metaphysics is hard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hullo! You&#8217;ve followed an old link to get here, and I haven&#8217;t managed to prune them all out, yet. Apologies for the resulting confusion, if any. The original &#8216;About&#8217; section has been chopped into different sections; follow any1 of the links below to carry on: About the Diary:\u00a0the Origin Story, both for the original pen-and-paper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5995,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/about\/about-the-diary\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":0},"title":"About the Diary","author":"Phil","date":"September 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My Beer Diary started life as an actual honest-to-goodness diary \u2014 or at least a notebook \u2014 and that remains its fundamental existence; there's just something about taking on-the-spot handwritten notes that's enjoyably impossible to replicate with gadgetry. 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