I started as a recording engineer for Tutor Tapes, and then, so enamoured with the epithet 'engineer', I became a customer support engineer for two years at ICL, fixing computers,before moving to Control Data for four years to fix much bigger computers. After some negotiating and a good parole hearing I was allowed to leave and use my almost average knowledge of computing for the good of mankind.

Thus I became a technology journalist in 1984.

Back then I used to edit magazines about computers PC Magazine, Personal Computer Magazine, MacNews, PC User

I've written for most of the broadsheets The Guardian, Sunday Times, Independent, Observer.

I've written what are laughingly called jokes (see what I did there) for the BBC's WeekEnding, made 4 series of a technology radio programme called Online for LBC, helped create and then appeared on The Big Red Mug Show with Paul Ross on Virgin Radio. And I even produced the Jazz FM breakfast show with Nick Miller for a short time.

Worked 4 years at Prospect Pictures making TV programmes for Sky's dotTV channel and then 10 years at the BBC making the technology show Click which goes on on BBC World, BBC News Channel and BBC 2.

Then as a change of pace I developed and produced The Weather Show first with Nicola Dixon and then with Carol Kirkwood.

As a freelance I write, shoot and edit make videos, take phototgraphs, and, well, the world is my Oyster Card...