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My collection of old pictures, Me at work and some of the people I have worked with.
On a recent training course, I met up with Phil Stirpe, a guy I hadn't seen in nearly 20 years, and who was one of the original people that taught me IT.
I worked briefly, for a company which claimed to offer network consulting services, and its for this reason that I decided to work for them.
When I got there, I ended up training some unemployed people in web sites, and networking technologies.
They were all really keen to learn, and had a great sense of humour, its one of the most fun and rewarding things I have ever done.
Whilst working at Corning cable systems, I was a consultant in the EU infrastructures team.
On one occasion, we worked through the night, to migrate exchange (it was a bit pointless, as a merger a few months later resulted in us migrating the whole thing to Lotus notes !).
This picture was taken at 4 am, and features a guy called Neil, and the famous Bob Sweet (I wore my hair quite short then.)
Its sometimes hard to explain my love of technology, and many of my friends can't understand why I would be so happy at that hour of the morning.
As many of the people I dealt with, never got to meet me face to face, I decided to attach a picture of myself to the bottom of my email signature.
I wont go to much into the outcome, but I removed it shortly after, and in America, when I met one of the German team I had spoken to many times, he didn't actually recognize me.
The T shirt is interesting.
Corning melted along with the dot com, a year after I left, but I still wear the Corning support 400 T shirt to this day for its comfort and durability.
Matt, Mike and I standing in the Canteen at Corning.
The food was certainly tasty, but you can see from the shape of me, driving to work each morning, and eating a 2nd cooked breakfast each morning, did nothing for my figure.
The night of my leaving do from Corning, in the awful village hotel, across the road.
A rare picture of a night out from Arthur Andersen.
Julie Blance on the left of the picture, became a good friend after I left, and even went to work at IBM in the department where I had previously works.
To the right of the picture is the excellent Andy Ogden who I worked with for 2 and a half years.
It was impossibly hard work there, but I learned a lot about myself.
My friend Jon Knight, on the night of his leaving do.
It was a shame to see him go, but he got the urge to go traveling, and I can identify with that.
A Cisco router course I attended in Leeds.
