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Let's start with a picture.
Something special must have happened, as I'm wearing one of those things with buttons on that requires ironing. The picture was taken probably early to mid 1999.
A few details about me. Well, three paragraphs.
Age 44. Born in Tondu, South Wales. Moved to Manchester to become a student. Took a year out to work for IBM. I liked Manchester so much that I stayed there to do my PhD as well. That was sponsored by ICI Imagedata.
My PhD subject was "Investigation into Pit Formation Mechanisms in Dye-Polymer Optical Data Storage Systems". Basically, it is the same technology as in CD-R (write once CDs). ICI produced a terabyte tape system in conjunction with Creo in Canada. My work has been to observe the formation of pits stroboscopically, and also some modelling of temperatures.
Since then I've had a few jobs. One at Euronav, working on digital marine charts. Secondly, at Netmansys (no web page!, but you can see a team photo from March 1999), customer support and training. Netmansys closed its doors on the 31st May 1999 and went into liquidation around the 20th June of the same year. Next I worked for Focal Ingénierie Sud (taken over by Osiatis, sometime around the end of 2005), third party maintenance of the tools used to load the BIOS and OS on HP PCs on the assembly line. Well, in actuality, I spent a lot of time installing Oracle databases. Not really the stuff of a PhD in Electronics. I worked for Simucad for five and a half years, on interconnect parasitic extraction. In July 2006 I started working for Mentor Graphics, working on their Questa ADMS product, in particular on the Verilog-AMS simulator component.
More personal information here.
I've written some of my thoughts about computers mostly a long time ago.
Click to see how my original HMHB pages have evolved. These pages started out as a means to get explanations for all of the curious references in the lyrics of the Biscuits songs, and have now evolved into a full-blown fan site.
I'm quite a big fan of Private Eye, both their humour and investigative journalism (even if they do cock it up every once in a while and end up being sued for absurd sums of money).
I tried using a few graphical HTML editors, but was never satisfied with any of them. Perhaps the newer ones are better. My CVs started out in Netscape and MS Word, but the HTML they write is not pretty. Otherwise, they are all hand written with a text editor. If you think that the default text on default background is boring, then you can always configure your browser to change them. Since I consider excessive images, animations and background wallpaper to be a waste of time, I don't use any of them. They just clog up network bandwidth for no real increase in information conveyed. If I'm not careful I'll start singing the praises of Gopher over HTTP.
In the good old days I had my own web server, now I have to slum it on free webspace.
The counter shows the miserably low number of people to have accessed this page.
If you have any suggestions, corrections or just are bored, e-mail me at paul.floyd@laposte.net
Alternatively, for another of my addresses that receives less spam, you can find my "free" address either with a bit of googling, or else take this address (the bit after http:// and before the next /), and replace the first dot with an at.
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