Description: a tall, middle-aged rod of light, stalking the back alleys of 11 dimensional hyperspace... and Tunbridge Wells.

Occupation: drupal agent, skeptic, blogger, gas giant hydrogen miner, pamphleteer, Captain Respect alter ego, musician, potboiler, nomenclature genius, world sculptor.

I was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Santa Monica back when it was the sleepy, nothing-going-on part of LA. Cool people lived inland, losers and elderly people lived in Santa Monica. I guess times have changed.

From the age of 15 I decided that music was going to be my occupation and as soon as I could play several chords on guitar, started writing really shitty songs that thrilled me to no end. Today people get record deals on the basis of songs of this calibre. Guess I was born at the wrong time to be both talentless AND famous.

Eventually I improved as a musician and songwriter and actually started writing GOOD songs. This did me no good though, as I was not gifted with the aggressive sales personality traits necessary to do anything in the world other than be a loser.

Unsatisfied with the above option, I chose instead to illegally record live performances of major pop acts and sell bootleg records (LPs) of these out of the boot (trunk) of my car. It was a living. I supplemented this paltry income by dancing naked at an all male strip club in Hollywood. It was in the primarily female audience of this club that I met my future wife, and having already worn out the LA music scene, it seemed an attractive idea to get married and move to Great Britain. We did so.

By early 1989, settled and cozy in the Southeast of England, we elected to procreate while still marginally young enough to contemplate someday partying with our children. This done, we elected to stop the reproductive process at 1 daughter, owing to the fact that mankind had not yet made satisfactory enough strides into space migration to offset the whole population explosion thing.

During the "cozy Southeast" years I recorded a great deal of music in my home studio until a accidental fire burned studio and house to the ground in 1994, prompting my entrance into "New Media".

Joining up with a group of similarly fire deprived creative types, also lacking in the aggressive sales personality traits mentioned above, we formed Sangria, London's first new media company. After an initial feature story in the UK version of Wired magazine (publication life: six months) Sangria began the slow decline that would eventually spell it's doom in 1998, when other media companies with silly "Dot Com" money behind them (all gone now, incidentally) rendered us irrelevant.

Post Sangria, in 1998, I decided to combine my media skills with music and create a product which could best be described today as, well, iTunes. For some reason I had a hard time selling anyone in the UK financial investment industry on the idea that anyone would want to subscribe to a song or recording and have it delivered automatically to one's computer. I guess Steve Jobs is a better salesman than me (aggressive sales personality issue again). In any case I finally hooked up with some cheap swindlers in '99 who wanted to use the "concept" of my product to make a quick dot com killing on the stock market and then bail. I let them use me for six months or so, until I got bored and bailed myself. Needless to say, no one made any money.

In 2000 my wife and I split up, prompting a year long "At Last I Am Free" drugs and alcohol binge that landed me, on various occasions: naked in a patch of rose bushes, hanging upside down from a metal sculpture by one foot like the man on the Tarot card, as a human coffee table at a Christian Awareness meeting (again naked) and eventually, in police custody.

By early 2004 I was clean, becoming disillusioned with music, building websites and writing code. In April of that year, while ironing some shirts, an idea hit me for a new and revolutionary type of online multiplayer game. Unfortunately the idea was so far ahead of its time that no one understood it, and this, subsequently, led to difficulties in getting the project off the ground. But despite minor setbacks like no money, no personnel and no interest in general, I have remained confident and have persevered with the project.

Meanwhile, in early 2006 I started using the Drupal Content Management System (CMS) to develop sites and fell in love. This was an altogether deeper and more sensible love than that I had ever shared with a woman, and it sparked a meaningful and fulfilling relationship that continues to this day.

As for the revolutionary online multiplayer game... its time has come.