Chapter 01: Footnotes Index

Educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and The Regent Street Polytechnic. Worked for Redifon, Scicon and ITT Europe, before becoming freelance in 1976.

The marketing agreement for my software was between me and a marketing company, which agreed that as owner of the software I would get 40% of the retail price.

This company did not go bust. Its director manipulated it so that it was not in its creditors' best interests to try to sue it. Immoral but completely legal.

Could the so-called IT 'skills shortage' be largely a skills wastage? I submit that there is a vast national reserve of IT skill which is inexcusably rejected.

CV, Education, Programmer, Technical Writer; History: Employment, Freelance, Business; Projects, Software Packages, Limited Liability, Unemployment, Welfare.

My college laser research project and the commercial electrical research & software development projects I worked on as a corporate employee from 1966 to 1976.

Electrical apprentice, electrical research assistant, programmer, systems analyst, technical writer, software developer, businessman, unemployed layabout.

Electrical apprentice, electrical research assistant, programmer, systems analyst, technical writer, software developer, businessman, unemployed layabout.

I received excellent primary and secondary education but not at the tertiary level. Yet it was only when my formal education ended that my real education began.

Programmer/analyst/developer: I can contribute to your project from simply providing fresh ideas all the way to taking a full part in its practical realisation.

Programmer/analyst/developer/businessman/unemployed layabout. Small software projects I did to keep my skills up to date from when I became unemployed in 1991.

For one who has followed the development of programming over 30 years, switching to a new language is trivial. A pity agency flibbertigibbets can't see that.

Electrical apprentice, electrical research assistant, trainee programmer, programmer, systems analyst, technical writer, software developer, businessman, unemployed layabout. I can contribute to your project from simply providing fresh ideas all the way to taking a full part in its practical realisation.

I wrote and developed a contacts manager and a paragraph processor, the first of which I also sold and supported through my own business between 1980 and 1990.

I have devoted half my career to technical writing, during which I have seen a revolution in authoring aids including 'Author's Delight', which I wrote myself.

The amount of money provided by State welfare depends on the attitude the many have towards the few who are denied the opportunities which the many are given.

Throughout my career I have seen unceasing torrents of government money poured recklessly into projects which could not possibly end other than in failure.