A glimpse into our connected future.

My workhorse computer for many years.

Adventures in online babysitting...

A collaboration between Sony (SCEE) and ArgoNet to test online Playstations

Great at the time; and granddaddy to the chip in your phone?

A review written for Acorn User magazine

(Commentary is from when this page was put up in a private section to show my friends my new house.  Pre-Facebook, obvs.)

You know you're in for trouble when you get a 'phone call from your lawyer starting "You know how you were supposed to complete on your house today...?"

Up in Manchester on an install

This was about the time when some of our test servers got so hot that chips started popping off the motherboards, among other problems with heat building up overnight.  So we had to get some air conditioning in, and rebuild a bunch of servers along with our usual day-to-day stuff.

I helped set up one of the stands at the 2004 BETT show. However, our networking kit didn't turn up for hours, so I was standing outside waiting for a van to turn up for ages. The traffic got so bad that double decker buses were sneaking along the wrong side of the road, until the Police waded in...