A chap living in Stevenage and working in London. What more is there to say?
Okay, okay! I'll tell you more if you insist. There are smatterings of my life all over this page, so you'd work it out anyway. I spent my first nine years in Kingston Upon Hull, followed by four years in Paris, five years in Newcastle Under Lyme, three years in Sheffield, three more years in Newcastle Under Lyme, two years in Alton, Hampshire and as I write this I have now been living in Stevenage, Hertfordshire for the past five years.
Stevenage has the dubious honour of being the first 'new town'. I think means that they had a lot of ideas about how to create a town at the time, but they hadn't worked out which ones would work yet. Some such as the bike paths did work ... but a lot didn't.
I work in the smoke. Slap bang in the middle of the square mile. That's London's financial centre for those who don't know. I work for a bank, developing e-Business applications as they call them. Mostly that means I develop web applications to do foreign exchange, loans and deposits.
When I'm not working you're still likely to find me on a computer. Pootling around on the internet or coding away. I know ... all work, no play makes Steve a dull boy! But I do like to get out on a mountain bike. I tend to be the one organising long weekends of mountain biking for the guys at mtb-thrashers.com. Usually we head up to Coed y Brenin or one of the other trails in Wales, but we're working to do more adventurous trips to Scotland and the French Alps.
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Other places to find me...
To keep better track of what I'm up to, you should probably look at the gratiartis.org site. I now have WordPress set up so that I can write the odd blog or article. That's also where all the embarrassing photos are...
