About Dave

Born 1969 to a barman in Liverpool, England. Well, not strictly a barman. It was my mother who gave birth to me, as you can imagine, and my father’s part was more limited. But they don’t record your mother’s job on the birth certificate.

As a kid I was lucky enough to live in many places - a sometimes difficult experience, but mostly positive - living in Spain, the Isle of Man, Belgium and even the Canary Islands for a short spell. My first language was Spanish and occassionally show this with slightly latinised grammar in English, but sadly a lack of practice means I’ve lost any fluency in the language. I’m better at French.

I love motorsport, travelling, gadgets, dancing (badly), parties, and getting on with life. I’m also vain enough to create a personal website - I suppose I needed to promote my motorsport, try to encourage sponsorship and so on, and secondly that when travelling it’s nice to keep everyone up to date with where I am and what I’m doing.

My career has been varied. Sadly my gregarious, sensitive and sociable nature it soon became apparent that international espionage wasn’t for me. But hey, comrades Boris and Roman became my friends and how could I nick off with their papers for a new type of weapon? It would have hurt their feelings. All I can say is, thank God for the fall of communism!

After that little affair I settled down into a more humdrum life, but always dreaming up schemes and methods to add a wee bit of spice. Work as a computer developer needed it. First off, the girl situation sucks something terrible. Guys, if you’re 18 and wondering what career is for you, and would like to get laid a lot… don’t choose IT. I mean really. Geeks are cool, and they’re far cooler now that people have realised it’s geeks that invented all that cool stuff like the Internet and Youtube. But as they’re mostly men they’re not much fun to sleep with. Well, not for a guy. Girls, however, can look forward to their IT career being filled with unwanted attention.

No, if you want to get laid a lot, international espionage is probably where it’s at. I’ve seen James Bond films.

The best part of my life and career has probably been the travel - although business travel in itself is dull dull dull it’s not so difficult to add pleasure to it. Add a day or two to any short trip where possible. For longer business trips make a point of spending as much weekend time travelling around your host country or even partying! I won’t forget the pleasure of watching the sun setting from Victoria Peak in Hong Kong, or rollerblading through the streets of Paris. Even better were the people I met. Oh, and some bad times during travelling too - attempted muggings, weird parasites and waking up horrendously hung-over, stinking of vomit, and sporting a new tattoo in a room I don’t recognise. And now it’s another new era. I’ve decided to form a technology services company, Interconnect IT Ltd which will provide… oooooh, all sorts of nice technology related services to business. There’ll be lots more about it soon at interconnectit.com