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My name is Michael Erskine and TecSpy.com is my domain. I've been playing on the interweb since about '94 (when Netscape was first released!) and I've had this domain since 1999.

I live in Sherwood, Nottingham, UK with my partner Dawn and our two daughters, Ruby and Lily. Here in Nottingham I work as a Software Engineer for an electronics company and my day-to-day work is quite varied: enterprise Java systems with a lot of custom TCP/IP work, embedded C systems with a lot of serial communications protocols, etc. My history of programming is firmly rooted in C on Sun workstations and all told I prefer to write in Java and Perl for Linux platforms. I especially like interfacing with hardware and software in innovative ways and I write a lot of testbeds for systems under development. If you think you might want to employ me, drop me a line!
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I'm a GNU/Linux fan and I'm one of the organisers of Nottingham GNU/Linux Users Group or "NLUG" for short. I can be found on the NLUG mailing list or in the NLUG channel on irc.oftc.net (irc://irc.oftc.net/#NLUG) with the nick "msemtd". in fact, the msemtd nick comes from my company initials, Michael Stewart Erskine; Mapping Technical Development, at my first real programming job at PAFEC Ltd. Nottingham (P.A.F.E.C. stood for Program for the Analysis of Finite Element Calculations). I wrote Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and mapping CAD tools in Fortran for high-end Unix workstations - interesting stuff.

I've been a skateboarder since Sept, '77 (that'll be 30 years this year!!!). Take a look at my skateboarding pages.

Catch you later,

Mick.

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