| 1962 | Born in Colchester. Lived in Holland-on-Sea, Essex |
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| 1967 – 74 | School at Holland Park School |
| 1970 | Family moved to Clacton |
| 1974 – 81 | School at Clacton County High School |
| 1981 | Moved to London (Finsbury Hall) |
| 1981/2 | First year of Applied Physics course at City University |
| 1982 | Moved to Hackney |
| 1982/3 | Social secretary at City University Students’ Union |
| 1984 – 88 | Degree in Computer Studies at South Bank Poly |
| 1986 | Moved to Earlsfield |
| 1986/7 | Industrial placement from degree course. Working at IBM in Brentford. |
| 1987 | Moved to Tooting |
| 1988 – 92 | Worked at Learmonth & Burchett Management Systems |
| 1991 | Moved to Balham |
| 1993 – 95 | Worked for Buena Vista Home Video (Walt Disney) |
| 1995 – 2001 | Set up Magnum Solutions Ltd and worked through that company for various clients:
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| 2001 | Data Munging with Perl published |
| 2002 (jun – nov) | Worked for Bibliotech (briefly before being made redundant) |
| 2003 – 2004 | More work for Magnum Solutions
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| 2003 | Perl Template Toolkit published |
| 2004 | Outcome Technologies |
| 2005-2020 | More work for Magnum Solutions
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