About Me

I’m a 33 year old British guy, living in Newhaven on the South coast of Sussex. I am a freelance LAMP web developer, have a wife, a dog and relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. I have some real life political experience, have served my time on turgid committees and am interested in politics, economics and philosophy. Oh, and I have a Law degree but don’t let that put you off!

You've Said That Already!

Oh right, yeah. You want to know more.

Dry biographical stuff first. I graduated from the University of Essex in 1995 with a 2:1 Honours degree in Law after which I went to law school, didn't like it and founded a company instead. This firm saw me travel all over Europe to trade events, giving me first hand experience of dealing with the diverse peoples of Europe and North America.

But times change and supply problems forced it to close. At this point I waved a magic wand and transformed myself into a web developer, teaching myself PHP, MySQL as well as HTML and CSS. It was around this time, four-five years ago, that I started playing Eve.

And Your Time In Eve?

This is clearly going to be an abridged version.

In the beginning I was a n00b. I started out as an empire dwelling carebear along with a couple of guys who I joined the game with from our Battlefield 1942 clan. A couple are still playing! Anyway, I drifted into a mate's corporation to help out with a war which was my first proper taste of PVP. I loved it. Shortly after that my new corp migrated out to 0.0 in time to be a founding corp of FIX alliance as the venerable CFS crumbled all around us.

I spent a lot of time in FIX, making both friends and enemasies, rising to the level of JCOS (an alliance administrator, a director, if you will) only to depart at the end of a long and bloody war to form PURE in the North. We formed this new alliance with the avowed determination to avoid the mistakes of the past so along with the infighting and cross-timezone schisms, we jettisoned electoral democracy and participative debate. This seemingly draconian, dictatorial position perversely acted to make PURE very free. People were free to have fun, not having to worry about working out what to do and they were deprived of the opportunity to argue for their own self-interest leading to fewer fights, schisms and factionalism. It transpires that 'Benevolent Dictatorship' is the sweetest form of governemnt after all.

I've not been hands-on in the day to day running of PURE preferring instead to focus on single issues of importance although I was the first External Relations minister...

Today I'm involved in co-ordinating invention efforts, preoccupied with the macro-economic issue of contolling our supply of money with a view to advantageously skewing the balance-of-trade and generally helping out when and where I can. I don't PVP as much as I'd like for a variety of reasons (got married, got an annoyingly self-obsessed border collie puppy who needs attention all the bloody time and I have to endure occaisional sensory imperfections which would make me dangerous to fly with!) but I do my bit.