Five Things...

The Five Things meme has finally reached me - it must be really hitting the long tail of it’s lifetime now!

So, you get to thank to Justin Uberti for tagging me as I unleash some trivia about my life…

Anyhow, the rules are that I tell you five things about me that you might not know and then tag five others to do the same.

With that out of the way, here we go…

• My first coding experience was on a friend’s KIM-1. Then a ZX-81 followed by a Spectrum, followed by etc…
• At Sixth Form (High School to you Americans) I was instrumental in putting on a production of “HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy”. I co-wrote the script in whilst supposidly in physics class with a friend of mine and then let him direct the adaptation while I did sound. We sold out all three nights and made a bunch of money for the school - we had people coming to see it from all over the country.
• I wrote computer games at school and sold them. I wrote books of games with “code listings”. I was published in Crash.
• In the early 90’s I wrote an application for the official scorer’s at TCCB cricket matches that replaced the traditional, centuries old, scorebooks. It was a TCL/TK app running on X-windows on BSDI Unix on 386 laptops that connected back to base so we could provide live updates to Teletext. That was over a SLIP connection. There was no PS2 mouse driver at the time so I wrote it. Think about it - 70 year old cricket geezers using X-windows on Unix in the early 90’s. They loved it. Oh, and I also got to sit in the scorer’s box at Lords during the 1993 Ashes series…
• I love sailing. Especially sailing in far off distant lands. Unfortunately I’ve not got to do that much recently…

And with that I get to tag five other people. Lets go with:

• Karen Ingram
• CJ Ingram
• Jason Waskey
• Niniane
• The Z-Man