biography

There is a quote "A backup is not a backup unless you have recently performed a restore from it"; I got to find this out the hard way.

Many years ago when I ran an engineering team for a consultancy we would get calls almost every day from recruitment agencies trying to pitch their services to us.

There is a video of a demonstration given by Doug Engelbart in 1968 which is commonly referred to as "The Mother Of All Demos". In the demo, he demonstrates a lot of technologies for the first time together that are common place today and some which we haven't even achieved properly now:

I have been very fortunate in my career to have some exceptional bosses that have had a massive impact on my career.