About Me
Hi there! As you might have guessed, my name's Simon Henshall, and I work in the IT industry. In 2016 I made the decision to start up my own web development company, which I called Alpha Web, and still manage to this day. While working in the IT industry, I developed a passion for cybersecurity, and even tried my hand at penteration testing (otherwise known as ethical hacking). I currently hold the national record for penetration testing over at WeChall, which is an amalgamation of the vast majority of hacking 'challenge' sites.
Following my passion for cybersecurity, I decided to set up my own cybersecurity company, acting as a sister company to Alpha Web. Alpha Safe provides all the advice and tools you need to stay safe online, whether you're a sole trader or a multinational corporation. Visit them over at AlphaSafe.co.nz to protect yourself from all the dangers of the Internet.
As for my personal character, I'm an honest, chivalrous and assertive guy who's outgoing and loves meeting new people. I love video games, and would consider myself very competitive - I actually have several national records, and even a handful of world records in video games. I also play a mean game of chess, and am always up for a game on either Chess.com or LiChess.
I'm a huge fan of music, with arguably the most eclectic tastes in anyone you'll ever meet. From Vera Lynn to Eminem, there's almost no music that I don't like. Some of my favourites encompass well-known 'classics' such as Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, and Elton John, as well as modern rock like Evanescence, Green Day, Linkin Park, and The Killers. If I had to state my favourite genre, it would probably be metalcore, and I'm a huge fan of several obscure artists who gained fame primarily through YouTube, such as Ken Ashcorp and PrinceWhateverer.
If you stumbled upon this website and like the design, please feel free to check out my web portfolio over at www.simonhenshall.co.nz. I'm more than happy to help set you up with a website of your own!
My Favourite Quotes
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity."
"The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying."
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."
"Facts don't care about your feelings."
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
"Where your fear is, there your task is."
"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."
"The most dangerous of all educational mistakes in influencing humanity, is due to the fact, that children are now taught the Old Testament account of the world as absolute truth, although it wholly contradicts their physical and historical instruction."
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
"If the truth shall kill them, let them die."
"People think of education as something they can finish."
"It's no joke to be articulate and to be able to think; there isn't anything that's more powerful than that."
"Once you become consciously aware that you, yourself, are vulnerable, you understand the nature of human vulnerability, in general. You understand what it’s like to be fearful, and angry, and resentful, and bitter. You understand what pain means. And once you truly understand such feelings in yourself, and how they’re produced, you understand how to produce them in others. It is in this manner that the self-conscious beings that we are, become voluntarily and exquisitely capable of tormenting others."
"Equality of outcome's a catastrophic ideal."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"We live in times where smart people are silenced so that stupid people won't be offended."
"Everything you can imagine is real."
"A mistake repeated more than once is a choice."
"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."
"We have a warped view of who’s oppressed and who’s the oppressor, when what we should be thinking about is accountability. Whether it's debt, unemployment or catch & release we have a culture of ZERO accountability."
"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination."
"Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price."
"The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech."
My Favourite Songs
Akin to MTV's classic 'Top 40' (and later 'U Choose 40'), I've decided to create my own 'Top 40' playlist. Below you'll find my favourite forty songs, in order. This page directly references the Spotify API, and essentially provides a custom presentation of the corresponding Spotify playlist, which can be found here.
Vic Fuentes
Don't Panic: It's Longer Now!
The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch
My Favourite Music Videos
My Gaming Records
