About Me
Personal Details
I'm a graduate electronic engineer who has spent all of his working life in the computer industry.
Career
Computer Industry
I started out with hardware design for a mainframe manufacturer, before moving to low-level assembly and micro-code programming. Taking various promotion opportunities saw me working for a time on the European Space Agency program in Darmstadt, West Germany, and later as area manager for ICL Dataskil responsible for the small to medium operating systems and consultancy.
Legis Solutions
Legis-SQL
Since then I've worked as Technical Director and General Manager of several small to medium size firms, before setting up my own hardware/software design company which focuses on the Legal software market in the UK. Our Legis-SQL product is seen as one of the best of its kind, and is used by some of the major players in the Uninsured Loss Recovery and Personal Injury fields. I no longer have a day to day involvement with Legis. For Legis enquiries: info@legissolutions.co.uk.
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, alleviated, or reversed? Probably, but that requires either 'mirror' to have its alignment changed. It wouldn't need much to reduce the effect and prevent or reverse the destructive laser like amplification. It must be possible given the slight changes needed!
My current car. Absolutely brilliant. Reasonably comfortable for long journeys in 'comfort' mode but put it into 'Dynamic Sport' mode and it becomes 'interesting'. 300BHP AWD via a 7 speed S-Tronic gearbox with paddle shift!
My Porsche 944 Turbo S. 250BHP RWD. Bought new. Many memories associated with this car, and it drove superbly last time it was on the road. Now I have to decide whether to renovate this true classic or sell it.
The only motorbike I have owned (other than the one used for my test). Very quick, but I prefer fast cars.