I spent the first 22 years of my life at school and University in Manchester. After graduating, I moved down to live in Farnborough, Hampshire before living and working in Exeter and Ipswich. Since '84 I've lived in and around London, in Twickenham, Chiswick, Crouch End, Wimbledon and finally Harlesden, which is a real dump.
 

Me as I currently am - or almost, as I have a new (but quite similar) pair of spectacles.

Me outside Wembley after the Euro 96 penalty win over Spain.

 

Despite having ambitions to be either a rocket-scientist or a parapsychologist, I ended up in IT! After a brief spell using Data General assembler, ICL George III and other useful skills ;-)), I was exposed to UNIX and became hooked. Since then I worked largely with UNIX and DEC VMS, though inevitably Novell, Windows NT and 95 play a larger part in my current working environment.
 

School (1971 - 1978)	Cardinal Langley Grammar School, Middleton, Manchester
University (1978 - 1981)	University of Manchester,  Studied Mathematics & Physics (Bsc Hons II.1)	Me as a fresh-faced innocent in my first year at Uni!
Previous Employers (1981 - 1996)	Software Sciences (now owned by IBM) 1981 - 1984 BRS Europe (bought by Robert Maxwell) 1984 - 1987 BT Gold/Dialcom (part of British Telecom) 1988-1989 BRS Software Products (bought by Dataware Technologies) 1989 - 1994 Dataware Technologies 1994 - 1996	Me and a group of customers after the now traditional BRS(Dataware) vs the Distributors 5-a-side footie match. (The scandinavians have a habit of winning!)
Current Employer (1996 - date)	ServeMode Systems Ltd	Photo by Len Marten  - he's the one in the middle with the beard.