“Live”
I've been living in and around London since 1995. Currently living south of the river down the Thames at Royal Arsenal.
“Work”
Currently working for ITV in London.
2007 Game in Basingstoke.
2007 IT consultancy in Frankfurt.
2007 Interactive Prospect Targeting Ltd.
2000 Computasoft e-Commerce.
“Play”
All work and no play makes Stu a very dull boy.
Although I have bought some clubs and taken up golf. Someone should invent some telescopic clubs that can be carried on a motorbike!!
“Message From Dad”
Hello Stuart
I am your Father. We first met on 2 Mar 71 in Hannover, Germany. You could not
talk as you did not know how to . . . I could not talk as I was full of alchohol in
celebration of your arrival. And yes, at first you did look like Winston
Churchill.
Your knowledge of all matters IT has come on a bit since I first bought you a Vic 20
computer for your 7th Birthday . . . you outgrew it over one weekend and demanded to
have a Commodore 64 (I thought that was a Royal Navy rank). I recall that you
immediately made a data-base of my fishing flies and tried to teach me the
fundamentals of IT, a wasted effort as I was still trying to master the TV remote
control. When you and your little schools friends gathered at our married quarter
in Fleming Close, Arborfield to discuss computer stuff, it was like a scene from
"The Village of the Damned." A gang of little blond haired people that stopped
talking whenever an adult appeared, then the "group staring" that drove the onlooker
from the vicinity. I think really it was because the adults did not have a clue
what you were talking about and thought that computers were kids toys and that is
what they would always be.
Computers came late to me in life and although I have ECDL and use IT daily, I still
feel that they are inferior to me as they do not always do what I want and ask me
questions that I do not understand, and I have to clean them.
When you decided to go to University your Mum and I were very proud. When you
declared that you would study Artificial Intelligence I thought, "how strange". He
is going to spend 3 years studying me!
The rest is history . . . you are cleverer, eminently experienced, well qualified
and have gained the wisdom associated with hard study and work. The only advantage
that I have over my computer is that when "it does my head in" I can pull the plug.
No doubt in a few years if I try that ploy, the computer will advise me, "pull that
plug and I will micro-wave you."
Over the years I have mastered the TV remote and hope by the time that the Grim
Reaper comes for me that I will have made some headway with the video recorder.
Computers though . . . I surrender.
I will log-out now (see, I now talk the talk)as my fingers are sore typing.
Dad
(on this planet but just visiting)
“Photo”
Stuart Snaddon