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F R E N D Z of martian
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Here ya go, Dude..
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Magna. A member of a group of followers of the teachings of Rajneesh. I
met him
at Middlesex Uni when he was called Richard. He lives in Germany in or
near the
Black Forest, I think. Lucky guy! I must get out there and visit him (I
keep
saying that). Programs C++, some web stuff I think.
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Andy Weakley. The guy I first sat next to on arriving at Dell. He was
very fond
of the MAME arcade emulator at the time. Seems to have an urge to
collect stuff
like that. When all's said and done, he could probably sort you out...
whatever
it is you want (as long as it's techie :-) He was a Microsoft proponent,
the
last I heard.
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Neil Connolly. He heals laptops. Spiritual, zany and nice to be around.
He
recently attained Reiki level 2 and if you ask nicely he can heal you at
a
distance.
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His Right Honourable The Lord Sir Robert
Clayton-Fortescue-Smythe-Barrington.
And I'm not entirely kidding. The only Tory on this planet that I would
vote
for. (However I've never actually put pen to ballot...) Insanely clever
network
admin for Circle (nee Brann). Many people try to headhunt him, and he
would
probably go, if he didn't work for...
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Andy Davies. (That's Day-Vees, not Day-Viz). My boss. Stunt coder who
got
shoved into management. Once he thought he might live in a vehicle and
not wash
his socks and get a dog on a string and drink special brew, but the urge
to
code was strong in him.
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Uber-geek from ObjectDesign - makers of a fantastic database (that needs
exclusive use of a gigabit network to operate ;-). I met him when Dell
chose
ObjectDesign for the backend to their data-driven site (which last time
I heard
was doing alright - although I must admit I haven't looked for a while)
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Pete Lancaster. A project planner at Brann, or as we like to call them,
'a
planner in the works'. His email address is uncannilly similar to his
job
description.
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David Brooke. My second boss at Dell. Famously animated during
presentations,
coming from a marketing background (err I think) - but I know for sure
that he
was in Japan working for Epson translating manuals at one point. At some
point
soon he is due to leave Dell to become a vicar.
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Mike Fleming. There's something about Brann that attracts eccentric
characters.
(Which is why I like it here :o) He's one of them.
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Neil Elkins sits opposite me. A renowned stunt coder. He's made some
really
nice music, and if you mail him and ask him for it he'll probably tell
you to
fuck off in an amusing way. But he won't mean it.
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Kip Parker - I sat opposite him at Dell until the management noticed we
were
having too much of a laugh. He split Dell to become a contractor (design
oriented) and seems to be doing pretty well.
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Me :-) A crazy dopehead into conspiracy theories. And stuff.
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Mike Shiels. Another completely mad character. I'm surprised we have had
no
contributions from him (don't expect to understand them if he does
though)
apart from a subscription to a mailing list which sent us the name of a
food
every day (allegedly)
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Arthur Nonymous. Possibly a friend of Mike Shiels. Another anonymous
appeared
at around the same time who mailed me and asked to get off the list - by
a
process of deduction we figured that Mike had probably signed him up.
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Alex Clark. Currently runs the Musicians Network
(http://www.musiciansnetwork.org.uk/ - which btw I haven't been able to
access
via ftp since March and it's starting to get a bit stale apart from the
forum
which gets a steady stream of msgs) and you might remember that he's an
advocate of unmetered telephone calls
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Alfred Nonymous. Possibly a friend of Blue and hondinia
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Nick Rigby. Avinnit geeza innit? Substances R Us.
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Brownie. A fairly regular contributor. Allegedly cannot spell HTML.
Thinks the
web is good for spiders to catch their lunch in. A page builder for
Dell. Just
kidding. About being a builder. No seriously, AFAIK he is still a
builder, the
other bits weren't true. Probably.
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The man who introduced me to the delights of Red Bull and Vodka. And
shared a
few 3-pint lunches with me. If there's a double entendre or a sexual
innuendo,
he knows what it means. And so does his lucky friend Pierre. An email
duel
between him and Elkins would be quite hilarious and very blue.
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My first boss at Dell. Another hilarious chap, again it's surprising
that no
gems have come from him. Has a penchant for silly ties, especially bow
ties. He
was the head of development at Dell when I left, although his title has
probably changed by now...
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Me again :-)
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One of the unixgeeken. One person at Brann has commented that his skills
are
'scary'. A short while after Redhat 6 came out he had patched 2 bugs in
the
distribution. Which is fairly hardcore...
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Richard Reynolds. NT guy at Brann. He's been at Brann for a long time,
having been a Vax dude. It's rumoured that he reprogrammed his own brain
in
COBOL.
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Frazer Harte. An HTML builder at Brann. His name gives rise to a
phonetically
amusing 'fharte@brann' email address.
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Blue. A friend of a good friend of mine, I didn't know him too well
until
recently. A good source for cheap computer tat in the South West. Lives
in a
lovely place near Shepton Mallet, in the middle of nowhere.
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This is the address that you sign up to any mailing list you like, and
it will
start archiving it at http://www.mail-archive.com/. Won't be receiving
this
mail (but unfortunately did get yesterday's one 'cause I fucked up)
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John Morse. Head of client-side application development at Brann. Funny
when
angry. He has a site at http://www.groovi.net/ which is just a
placeholder at
the moment but watch this space.
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Hondinia. As the name suggests, a biker chick. She also does tech
support for
ukonline (I think). She's a right laugh :-)
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Geraint Stimson. Or Fredd. Another of the unixgeeken. Administrator of
der
linuxboxen und der slowarisboxen. He likes every sentence he says to
include
either a serial number or the full name of a complex molecule. Ask him
about
his novel idea for recycling polystyrene into psychedelic precursors.
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Mercedes. Beautiful geek girl I met at Middlesex Uni. Hailing from
Florida, I
don't get to see her that much, and our friendship would probably be
fairly
muted if it wasn't for the existence of email. I dunno why she's the
last on
this list, she was the first to get invited...
That's it. That was pretty hard to do, but fairly rewarding. And now you
all at
least know who's on the list, even if you don't know them yet :-)
oops, I forgot craig, because he gets the digest...
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Coder who replaced me at Dell. His family's genealogy is online at
http://www.gingell.com/ which as well as containing an impressive amount
of
data was a very early example of using XML and XSL together to generate
HTML
pages.
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