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).
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.
Thankyou very much for your considerable work on the 'Facts and figures' table. This must have taken a lot of time and effort. Well worth it though! Richard Nowell (talk) 11:31, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Cats
We are a cat-friendly family. We currently have three (NB: they were already named!):
I used to work for Codd & Date Ltd, set up by Ted Codd and Chris Date of relational database fame. Of course I never actually got to meet them but some of the stories…
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.
