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==About me==
I used to be a [[Law Costs Draftsman]] (from 2000 to 2013): now I work for the company writing the software that I used for most of that time, and provide aid and succor to my ex-colleagues over the phone!
Before that I was a Computer Programmer for a couple of decades.
Before that I was at university
([[University College London]])
and, even before that, school
([[Haileybury and Imperial Service College|Haileybury]]).

I am married with one daughter.
My wife is a Law Costs Draftsman.
We live in [[Amersham]].

My interests include reading (a lot) and listening to music (loud).
I also manage to watch a surprising amount of TV.

My birthday is [[September 4]] which turns out to be surprisingly public, since I submitted it to various newsgroups a long while back.
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==Cats==
We are a [[cat]]-friendly family. We currently have two (NB: they were already named!):
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! Roger
| male || black || quite bonkers || local cat rescue || November 2011
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! Teabag
| male || gray tabby, white underneath || yowly, as befits his distinctly Siamese features || local cat rescue || August 2014

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===RIP===
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! Jazpurr
| male||ginger/red tabby|| ||[[Cats Protection]]||August 1995
|died August 2003
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!Motley
| female||tortoiseshell|| ||family up the road||
| Died [[Christmas Day]] 2002
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! Mimi
| female|| black-and-white|| medicated for [[thyroid]] problems;<br/>the escape artist of the bunch||[[RSPCA]] rescue||{{date|2003-12-31}}
| Died {{date|2006-12-06}}
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! Bramble
| male|| black|| laid-back||[[Cats Protection]]||Spring 1996
| Died {{date|2007-07-01}}
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! Daisy
| female|| black|| bossy||a family up the road who moved to [[New Zealand]]||
| Died {{date|2011-06-01}}
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! Bill
| male|| ginger/red tabby|| <s>small but</s> fat, greedy and loud||[[RSPCA]] rescue|| {{date|2005-08-27}}
| Died {{date|2011-06-05}}
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! Stig
| male|| mackerel red tabby || enormous || local cat rescue || {{date|2007-07-07}}
| Died {{date|2011-11-02}}
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! Poppy
| female|| tortoiseshell|| not laid-back ''at all''||[[Cats Protection]]|| Winter 1997
| Died {{date|2014-02-01}}
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! Snowdrop
| female || white || fluffy, hissy, greedy || local golf club sold for redevelopment || Spring 2010
| Died August 2014
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! Biscuit
| male || red tabby || adventurous || local cat rescue || August 2014
| Died {{date|2021-10-27}}
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==Claims to "fame"==
''Some clutching at straws here, but if I can get an article or two out of it ... :-)''
*I used to own a car (a [[Honda]] [[Civic]] Shuttle) which had previously been owned by [[Brian Cant]] and before him by [[Pauline Quirke]].
*I went to school with [[Quentin Stafford-Fraser]], co-inventor of the [[Trojan room coffee pot]].
*I also went to school with [[Stephen Mangan]], now internationally famous for acting and stuff.
*I worked for a while with [[Tim Rowledge]] who ported [[Smalltalk]] to the [[Acorn RISC Machine|ARM]].
*I am related (quite a few generations back) to [[James Boswell]]; my family tree goes back some 27 generations to [[Robert Sieur de Bossuille]] (see [[Clan Boswell]]) who arrived in England in [[1066]] with [[William the Conqueror]]. It is likely that [[John Boswell]] is also a distant relative of some sort simply because we share a surname.
*I shared a house for a while with one [[Phil Rainey]], [[bass guitar|bass]] player for [[Christian]] [[folk rock]] group ''[[Eve and the Garden]]'' (and for their previous incarnation as [[heavy rock]] band ''Ascent'').
*I used to work for Codd & Date Ltd, set up by [[Edgar F. Codd|Ted Codd]] and [[Christopher J. Date|Chris Date]] of [[relational database]] fame. Of course I never actually got to meet them but some of the stories…
*I also worked for [[Thames Water]] for a while, giving me an unenviable knowledge of the [[Thames Valley]] by way of the various [[Sewage treatment]]works and pumping stations…
*Whilst at University, I worked for a summer holiday with the [[GRiP Project]] (building a [[graph reduction]] machine with [[Simon Peyton Jones]], [[Mark Hardie]] and [[Chris Clack]]. I don't imagine for an instant that any of my code survived past the beginning of term but it was fun while it lasted.

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