The Shocking Truth

Timeline Happiest Days of Life Born: Norwich, England. 28th Febuary 1961. Secondary School: College Cardinal Mercier, Belgium. 1972 - 1980 University: Queen Mary College, University College London. 1980 - 1983. Work 1983 - 1984: British Hydromechanics Research Association, Cranfield, UK. Not terribly exciting. 1984 - 1988: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK. [Antarctica, 1987-1988]. More exciting but not very lucrative. 1988 - 1995: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK. [Antarctica, 1991-1992] [Antarctic CRC, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Autumn 1991]. 1995 - 1999:ESYS Limited, Guildford, UK. Proper job at last. Sort of..... 1998 - lots of telemedicine distance learning stuff...for example Multimed. 2000 ....: The Fantastic Corporation, Lugano, Switzerland. Director of Broadband Applications in the R&D group Play (significant bits) 1985 - 1988: Piloted various incarnations of awesome art-rock band, Fragile Skies. Wasted money on rotting Triumph cars. 1988 - 1993: Slightly less awful musical collaborations. Wasted money on rotting Alfa Romeo cars. Introduced to Apple Macintosh and forgot how to draw. 1994: Teamed up with David Wright to form AD Music Ltd. Wasted money on same, and on Apple Macintosh. 1996-ish: teach-yourself multimedia. Goodbye Real World, hello Virtual Reality. Welcome home Mr Niles. We've been expecting you. 1998: rediscovered the outside world (or Venezuela anyway).

RandomThings ...erratic research record spanning Journal of Glaciology through to International Journal of Telecare and Telemedicine...several other bits and pieces in books on remote sensing and Antarctica...authored web sites for European Space Agency, Isle of Light Records...various articles and book chapters on computer type things that I'm extremely bored with now... ...likes: coffee shops (current local favourite: Costa Coffee, closely followed by Seattle Coffee Company - worldwide favourite: Peet's, San Francisco & Oakland)..vegetarian food and fish..pigs (alive)...dogs.. .art: Delvaux, Magritte, Russell Mills..books: favourite authors include Iain Banks, Peter Ackroyd, A.S.Byatt, Christopher Priest, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, Rupert Thomson, Helen Dunmore, A.L.Kennedy etc etc. Tasmania, South Georgia, Ireland...


	Happiest Days of Life Born: Norwich, England. 28th Febuary 1961. Secondary School: College Cardinal Mercier, Belgium. 1972 - 1980 University: Queen Mary College, University College London. 1980 - 1983.

	Work 1983 - 1984: British Hydromechanics Research Association, Cranfield, UK. Not terribly exciting. 1984 - 1988: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK. [Antarctica, 1987-1988]. More exciting but not very lucrative. 1988 - 1995: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK. [Antarctica, 1991-1992] [Antarctic CRC, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Autumn 1991]. 1995 - 1999:ESYS Limited, Guildford, UK. Proper job at last. Sort of..... 1998 - lots of telemedicine distance learning stuff...for example Multimed. 2000 ....: The Fantastic Corporation, Lugano, Switzerland. Director of Broadband Applications in the R&D group		Play (significant bits) 1985 - 1988: Piloted various incarnations of awesome art-rock band, Fragile Skies. Wasted money on rotting Triumph cars. 1988 - 1993: Slightly less awful musical collaborations. Wasted money on rotting Alfa Romeo cars. Introduced to Apple Macintosh and forgot how to draw. 1994: Teamed up with David Wright to form AD Music Ltd. Wasted money on same, and on Apple Macintosh. 1996-ish: teach-yourself multimedia. Goodbye Real World, hello Virtual Reality. Welcome home Mr Niles. We've been expecting you. 1998: rediscovered the outside world (or Venezuela anyway).



		...erratic research record spanning Journal of Glaciology through to International Journal of Telecare and Telemedicine...several other bits and pieces in books on remote sensing and Antarctica...authored web sites for European Space Agency, Isle of Light Records...various articles and book chapters on computer type things that I'm extremely bored with now...		...likes: coffee shops (current local favourite: Costa Coffee, closely followed by Seattle Coffee Company - worldwide favourite: Peet's, San Francisco & Oakland)..vegetarian food and fish..pigs (alive)...dogs.. .art: Delvaux, Magritte, Russell Mills..books: favourite authors include Iain Banks, Peter Ackroyd, A.S.Byatt, Christopher Priest, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, Rupert Thomson, Helen Dunmore, A.L.Kennedy etc etc. Tasmania, South Georgia, Ireland...