I was born on the 8th of April, 1975 - which makes me 25 years old at the time 
of writing this.  I graduated from Portsmouth University, England, in 1996 and 
then went to work for Smiths Industries in Cheltenham as a Software Engineer 
developing real-time embedded software for the aerospace industry.  At the 
beginning of May 1999 - two and a half years later - I moved to Rohde & Schwarz 
in Fleet, since which time I've been working on equipment for testing mobile 
phones.  I have been actively involved mudding since 1993 and created a codebase 
(GodWars) while teaching myself C at the end of 1994.  Unfortunately, as it was 
my first experience with the language - and as I didn't even had a book for 
reference - the result was very buggy and very poorly written.  This codebase 
has three main purposes.  The first is to prove that my programming abilities 
have improved since I wrote GodWars.  The second is to act as a prototype for 
my new combat system and as a possible platform for God Wars II.  The third 
and final reason is because I wish to make a quality contribution to the mud 
community other than just snippets.