People have emailed from time to time and asked “who is, so and so”? Well some people remain reasonably anonymous, but I’ll try to give an idea of who or what they are. I refer to them quite a bit so it’s only fair I give them a little introduction. This is a quick list that’ll be expanded upon over the next few weeks.
Fenny (not real name) = mate from Sheffield days, again from way back to around 1984. She is an Accountant with a sense of humour – not afraid to tell me how it is. Part time fruit farmer and keeper of stuff. Her other hobby is the testing of speed camera flash lamps.
Hammy or even sometimes known as Scotty = Incoherent, skirt wearing thug who just happens to be one of the best guys you could wanna know.. Known to a select few as the “Barbarian of Basra” who led his platoon himself in to some of the worse fighting to take the City – after growling at is officer whom promptly went and quit the Army before they even got into combat. While he goes by other titles such as the “Kebab King of the Celts” he can now be found in semi retirement in New Zealand where he spends a peaceful existence as a family man and his downtime slaughtering local wildlife on wholesale basis (with his teeth).
Cozmic = Lee, a swarve tech head I have known for around a year. Badly needs a haircut. He is also the pyromaniac of the IT world.
K&J = Friends from way back in the early 80′s. K/Kev has an insane ability to be able to fix anything – well, if he can get his hands around it, it’ll be fixed!! Has a disturbing ability to be able to voltage and continuity test with his head.
Spanky = An old school friend from back in 1979-81. Has property in New Zealand and lives in southern Australia. She is one of the few ladies I can feel comfortably around because she’s a good mate and doesn’t mind
Irh aka Shrek = Tech Guru of future technologies. Worked, designed, problem solved, dreamed up and concieved the most amazing things in my career to date with him. Predominantly Irh gets to grips with amazing new base technologies and bolts them together to come up with a seperate end user and more importantly ‘marketable’ technology – years before anyone else. Frightens small children with his Shrek like looks, which in turn become more terrifying when he finds a woman he likes – at this point he starts to sound like Shrek while going an odd shade of green.
San = Ex Wife and good friend. She works in the field of Psychiatry and is apparently very good at what she does – because I can even make w–w-words now.
BigDog = Dave over in the USA. Dave is a property mogul and landlord. Known him for around 7 years, has a fine collection of firearms, cars and a trail of women always wanting to date him. He is very learned, having an amazing knowledge of culture, history and politics. We spend most of our time in ‘bloke talk’ about women and humour – a good guy.
Dave Bones = is,well, himself really. He lives in London and is a keen reporter of cultural and ethnic political issues. He also plays in a band. If I were to become Prime Minster, Dave would vote me into office then stand for the opposition front bench. His children on the other hand are all recipients of ASBO’s.
RightwingSparkle = Kathy from Houston, Texas. Kathy is a Republican political junky and runs a blog of the same name. I have known Kathy for about 7 years and she has been helpful in the overall understanding of US politics. Oddly, she has bad taste in firearms. Another genuinely nice person.
MPW sometimes referred to as our Reporter in the field M.Philpotwil = my brother Martin. Martin is a genius within the field of elves. This is not to say he’s outstanding in his field, because he does not own any arable land as such. But within his area of interest he has an excellent reputation as a regional Elf and Safety manager to the heavy construction industry. Previous work included skin beater, close protection, including that of the President of the US and hiding nasty weapons – as such a visit to his home should only be carried out with maximum caution. Apparently very good at dismantling airplanes with his bare hands.
Ginge = Ginge, the one and only IT Wizard, based between Riyadh and Dubai and have known him since 2000. Hacker extraordinaire and used to get paid by the government for such services. Taught me much of what I know. When he was told by a major database corporation that their new database was un-crashable – he promptly got up, walked over to the keyboard and within 8 key strokes crashed it for them!
Mack = Andy, known from doing a course together in 2004. Former sapper and other dubious stuff. Now a complete tech head and Stock Market guru. Andy’s daughter is the real house doctor, honest!
Najd Falcon = Abdullah from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Know since 2000 and a good mate.
WKD = White Knuckle Driver (not Wicked!!, shouted in a scouse accent). WKD is a work colleague of sorts – she’s often referred to as a ‘breath of fresh air’ by those she works with and for that reason alone, is worth avoiding 
Annoyingly good at driving, likes ‘flight’ yet unimpressed with crashing apparently, though she is fascinated by and enjoys watching insane well dressed and sometimes wealthy people try to commit suicide in a horrific manner at events like the Badminton Horse Trails.
She knows the difference of milking a cow in the UK and New Zealand (something to do with the wrist). She daily communicates with bearded folk and furthermore – understands them!
By the nature of her job, If you think she’s wearing mascara, then she has sh*t in her eye.
Sue = Sue, or professionally known as Sue Black Fud (=Phd)
Not born within any kind reach of the sound of the Bow Bells, a woman whose individual style and flair led to the most groundbreaking hair style and colour in the world by the sheer fact that it can be seen on both a dark night, while in dense fog… and from space!! When not in formal attire, she is more notably to be seen supporting an edgier Indie look.
While off on her many excursions about the globe she becomes the name sake, pack leader and CEO of “Mustang Sue’s Wreckin Crew”, a notorious group of geeks and tech heads who know how to work hard and play much, much harder.
When saving Bletchley Park she has one trick up her sleeve few others have – she can actually read code, this actually translates to a well known language most people recognise, as such, traces of “gobbledegook” graffiti that can be found in most places she visited.
Gabrielle : Finally rebelling (or on the run) by the age of 30, Gabrielle is trucker and Harley Davidson biker chick, though these days, she’s far more likely to been seen in pink fitness attire rather than her rebellious leathers as she is an avid runner – not surprising when she has ancestral Fr**ch blood coursing through her veins.
Wherever Gabs is, she stands out in any crowd with her adornment of some truly amazing tattoos that only the foolhardy would dare to touch.
She has a great sense of humour and can be found on her own blog (just click on her logo), commenting here or more often than not – kicking it on Twitter as @gabsatrucker. In recent times she rebels less having removed her piercings due to being both an airport security nightmare and pulling unusual facial expressions every time she walks past a magnet.
