Old programmer. Worked as a product dev engineer for umpteen years for a handheld computer mfr in Central London. Got the hell out of London, up to Skye in 1998, to study Scottish Gaelic full time at http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk for a year. I was born in Derby, grew on a farm in Staffordshire (near Alton Towers, woohoo), studied Theor. Phys. at York 1979-82. Did a lot of singing when I was young, that's how I bagged myself a stunning, gorgeous singer for a wife. A life in a nutshell. And I've always been crazy about fast cars. I bought a new MR2 Mk1a in 1986. Hooked.