In the UK, when you’re in the final year of your high-school tuition, you have to do a week of work experience; that is, you go out to work at a real company to see what the working world is like.
I did my work experience at ICI and during the week I was there I did some work on a mainframe computer. It was named Ckwop.
When I first discovered IRC back in the late 90s, my friends and I didn’t have our own IRC server. Our channel was on EFNET. Anyone who has used EFNET will tell you that finding a unique handle requires some inventiveness. I used the handle ckwop, because of its uniqueness, and have used it ever since.
I am a technologist who lives in the north west of England, as I have for the whole of my life.
My interests are wide and varied, but the focus of the site is to give express my thoughts on software development in general.
In recent years I’ve also trained as a pilot so some of the more recent entries relate to that.
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