About Me
Graduate Engineer & Technologist
A graduate electronic engineer who has spent his entire working life in the computer industry — beginning with hardware design for a mainframe manufacturer, then progressing to low-level assembly and micro-code programming.
Career
From Space Agency to Legal Software
Career highlights include working on the European Space Agency programme in Darmstadt, Germany, and serving as area manager for ICL Dataskil. Later roles as Technical Director and General Manager led to founding his own hardware/software design company focused on the UK legal software market.
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Thought of the Day / Month / Year / Lifetime
Beware the Social Mirror
It actually works more like a LASER, with a mirror on both ends (sides), reflecting and amplifying one input until it burns into the minds of those involved as fact, even though starting from just one small piece of information on one side of the picture. It seems to only affect women.
It can be corporate colleagues with a large company ethos, (pseudo) step children, parent(s) and friends, or just (pseudo) step children and friends.
The sad thing is that the person concerned doesn't perceive what is happening until it is too late to realise that the new self initiated 'facts' are not only self-sustaining but growing destructively in amplitude.
However carefully you navigate, it WILL get you in the end.
Can it be moderated or alleviated? Possibly, but that requires the 'far' mirror to have its alignment changed. It wouldn't need much to reduce the effect and prevent the destructive laser like amplification. It must be possible given the slight changes needed!
Absolutely brilliant. Comfortable in 'Comfort' mode, but switch to 'Dynamic Sport' and it becomes truly interesting — 300BHP AWD via a 7-speed S-Tronic gearbox with paddle shift.
250BHP RWD, bought new. Many memories associated with this car and it drove superbly the last time on the road. A true classic now awaiting a decision: full restoration or sale.
The only motorbike owned beyond the one used for the riding test. Very quick — but on reflection, fast cars remain the clear preference.