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Born 1969, in Liverpool.

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 ever so 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.

In my teens I stopped moving around and got some stability living with my grandmother.  It was one of those classically poor as church mice experiences, but only by the standard of Western countries – we had a car and at one point even enjoyed central heating.

These days I love motorsport, travelling, gadgets, dancing (badly and generally only when I’ve sniffed a little too much wine), technology and just getting on with life. I’m also vain enough to maintain a blog.

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 in a large chemical company needed it.  It was safe work, but hard to get excited about.

Travel + Work = Not so bad

The best part of my life and career so far has probably been the travel – although business travel in itself is dull dull dull it’s not so difficult to add pleasure to it. By making the effort to add a day or two here and there, or eschew the idea of commuting by plane and actually moving into the city where you’re working, you can really start to appreciate a country.

Even better were the people I met. Oh, and some bad times 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. A friend of mine, James Whitehead and I decided to form a new company which ended up evolving into a web development company over at interconnectit.com which is finally doing quite nicely.

We’ve also launched a WordPress Themes Club called Spectacu.la which is in very early days and, we’ll admit, has suffered somewhat for being late to the party.  We should have started releasing themes back in 2006, when we already had some pretty cool ideas floating around – it’s just that nobody asked us, and we were just a little too modest about our skills to go and shout about it.  Our mistake.

Still, these are interesting times – we’ve done a couple of high profile sites now: Politics & The City, and Telecoms.com… and are increasingly involved with other media groups that we can only talk about later…