A brief introduction

Hi everyone.

As Shaun mentioned earlier, he has kindly allowed me to pen a few ramblings on his site, so I thought a brief introduction was in order.

I can hardly believe it, but I’ve been working in the IT industry for 34 years, from the days when one computer took up an entire room and had less storage than my watch! (Que loads of posts from people remembering the good old days of paper tape and disks the size of washing machines). I’ve gone through just about every PDA/Mobile device in that time, from the original Sharp IQ series through Psions’s, Palm’s, Sinclair Z88′s, all flavors of Windows Mobile right up to the latest Android and Apple offerings. I used to program for a living and  even made a small amout of money on mobile devices, anyone remember ReadCIX and ReadCIS for the Psion 3a? Currently I work for myself, mainly from home, supporting local businesses and home users on all aspects of IT. This means I get to see technology working in the real world and how “normal” people react to the things we may take for granted, so have a healthy does of cynicism. Something a few Websites and Podcasts authors could do with. I also write a monthly column in the local free paper covering all things techie and answering questions, which also gives me an idea of the problems people are having.

I’m a big fan of Symbian (quiet at the back!) and have several Nokia’s laying around, but at the moment I’m alternating between a iPhone and a Palm Pre as my main device and just waiting for someone to bring out a Smartphone in a flip format, but  more on this in a later post.

Anyway, this was only meant to be a quick hello, I hope to keep you entertaind over the coming months and look forward to lots of discussion in the comments.