my little part of the cosmos

I've been on internet chat since the mid 1990s using various nicks and am the manager of channel #thevillage. We have a mix of people from various parts of the world including USA, UK, Canada, Holland, Israel, Germany, France and Australia. The owners of the room are enid and ren. I created the website http://theircvillage.net/ using Adobe Dreamweaver as an HTML/CSS website using a template, with mibbit as the chat client, featuring a gallery of channel regulars.

Born in 1967, educated in England with two degrees in computer science, and lived in various parts of the country, mostly London, what you might call a hacker if you were being polite or otherwise a bit of a nerd. I had some fun writing a sophisticated C compiler which had quite respectable sales until Microsoft produced one for free, but which I am nevertheless still developing as an ongoing project. I have worked in various tech jobs including database programming and web design, all under Microsoft Windows. I have Adobe qualifications in Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver authoring, and have been writing webpages since 1996.

I like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which I have read numerous times (I told you I was a nerd ). I stay current with the recent film releases although I'm quite selective in what I watch, which means action films, scifi and some horror if it's well made. I have been using Sony Vaio computers since 1990 and find them excellent machines. My favourite music is rock which means Rush, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and similar.

My family is Polish and I speak the language relatively fluently. However being born in London I write and think in English, although the first language I learnt was my mother tongue.

I enjoy travelling to other countries and have been to many European countries as well as various parts of the United States and Canada.