About Me
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However, nothing stand still for very long, particularly in the field of Information Technology. So, as you can appreciate, it wasn't long before the old PCW 9512 was passed on to someone else and replaced by a shiny new Personal Computer. Tentatively my writing contributions moved away from PCW Plus and onto Future Publishing flagship PC Plus. This gave me the opportunity to explore the PC more fully and, in particular, begin reviewing computer software. After a while I began contributing to the now defunct PC Direct. This opened up opportunities in other magazines including PC Advisor and PC Pro. But of course I don't only write reviews for magazines. About six years ago I was lucky enough to begin beta testing software for Microsoft and a few other software manufacture's such as Zone Labs and McAfee. This proved to be a very rewarding experience. Testing products first hand enabled me to experience the many faults that beta software suffers from. This lead me to the many newsgroups, giving practical advice to people, like myself, who either had had problems and solved them, or else were still experiencing them. Obviously I had 'slid' through Windows Me without too much problem, but Windows XP produced more of the 'bugs' that Microsoft needed to cure. Once again I scoured the Microsoft Public Newsgroups and, if I knew the solution to a problem, I posted as regularly as I could. It was from these Public Newsgroups that my efforts in helping others was finally recognised. It was at this time that I was awarded my Microsoft MVP Status. I am happy to say that I am now in my fifth year as an active MVP and hope to continue with the good work. In 2005 I authored, along with Curt Simmons, Alan Simpson and David Dalan, a new addition to the Windows XP library entitled "Windows XP MVP" The book will be on sale in September (USA) and October (UK). Further details are available from Amazon.Com I live in the United Kingdom
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I
first started my writing career about ten or so years ago. This
was at the time when Amstrad popular word processing computers,
the Amstrad PCW 9512 was in vogue. Never having looked at a word
processor before, let alone a personal computer, I was
fascinated at how much faster a job could be done when compared
to a standard typewriter. After purchasing my very own Amstrad
PCW 9512 it wasn't long before I began contributing to the very
popular PCW Plus magazine published by Future Publishing. The
memories still linger of that faithful first machine.