About Me

This is me, taken by my wife with a Kodak DC240 (see below). I live in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in England. High Wycombe is an ancient town with its centre nestling in a fold of the Chiltern Hills half way between London and Oxford.

For very many years I caught a train every morning to work in London where I worked for a succession of government departments. I was lucky to have a great range of interesting jobs, such as overseeing the Channel Tunnel Bill in 1984-1987, and setting up and running the Driving Standards Agency from 1988 to 1993.

In 1997 I called it a day, and did freelance work writing MS Word macro suites for London law firms. More recently, I became the honorary Newsletter Editor for the High Wycombe Society (affiliated to the Civic Trust) creating a newsletter once a quarter (using Word 97), and I have built websites for the High Wycombe Society and, most recently, for ANTAS, the Association of North Thames Amenity Societies. Generally I have a far better time than I ever had before!

But I was not new to programming. I learnt Fortran 2 in 1964, applied it to weapons problems during my time in the Ministry of Defence and then, after a brief pause, bought a ZX81 in 1981, for which I bought my first word processing program (Tasword). Since then, I have taken delight in the increasing power that word processors offer, through WordPerfect 5.1 and now Word 2000.