I live in West Sussex and work there as a software engineer. I originally come from Oxfordshire and was educated at William Fletcher Primary School, Yarnton, and The Marlborough School, Woodstock. Marlborough didn’t have a website when I was there, but playing on their Research Machines 380Z’s and 480Z’s settled my mind on a career.

I survived an education at North Staffordshire Polytechnic, which is now known as Staffordshire University. There was a name change in the middle as well. In 1989 they realised that they could drop the “North” because there was only one Polytechnic in the county. I say “survived” because I nearly got kicked out for hacking.

I’d rather be sailing than doing almost anything else. I am an enthusiastic occasional sailor on the yacht Sea Tramp, which resides on the Hamble, Southampton. Sea Tramp is a 45' ketch made of ferro-concrete. Concrete? Yes, she floats. No, she shows no immediate inclination to turn into a submarine.

Notice that I described myself as “enthusiastic” above, not as an “expert”. Please feel free to cackle with derision at one of my errors of judgement.

We mainly sail around the south coast of England, but we’ve also toured the Scilly Isles, Brittany from St. Malo to Morlaix and lapped up the sun in the Channel Islands. Alderney is one of my favourite places to relax, especially when the wine flows freely. Despite attracting the attention of Customs & Excise, we’ve never been caught smuggling.

The lure of arcade games caught me right from the moment I had too little money to spend on them. At school the only science subject worth remaining half awake for was Physics. So it is with some relief that I feel arcade games helped me achieve a fairly good understanding of Biology too.

The only Psion software I’ve released is a small utility for the Series 3/a/c to allow you to print graphs from the Sheet application on a PostScript printer. This was originally released in January 1996 as DOPIC but is now more appropriately named LPIC2PS. It converts Lotus PIC to PostScript.