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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Former software designer, software design manager, R&D director. Real-time software, telecoms.

Investment analyst, private investor. As well as a writer (plays, screenplays, newspaper & magazine pieces on tech and investment).

I'm a skeptic, a radical centrist, a music and movie fan with a library that's too big for my living space.