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wasabicube is where I experiment with web design techniques and is the unofficial clarion of the Waxheads indoor soccer team. Occasionally, I’ll offer my opinion on the issues du jour and I’ll endeavour to include links to sites and techniques I’ve found handy or interesting. All being well something useful may be uncovered in the process.
wasabicube is my personal web site — don’t be surprised if it alters under you as I have a tendency to make sudden, live changes.
If you get anything at all out of visiting I’ll be more than happy.
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I was born in England and brought up there, in North Wales and New Zealand.
I’ve been writing software since 1979. My first "hands-on" programming experience was in BASIC on a Radio Shack TRS-80 Level 1 kindly brought into school by a savvy student teacher. I’m old enough to have punched cards in ALGOL60. The first real computer I owned was a Sinclair ZX81 bought for NZ$229.00. My first unreal computer was an old Imperial typewriter and a vivid imagination.
Once I’d gained access to computers on a regular basis (half a dozen EACA Video Genie EG 3003s at high school) my first serious attempt at writing software was to create a French verb conjucater. It created random French sentences with missing verb-endings. The user had to supply the correct ending.
I studied Computer Science at the University of Otago and programmed accounting software for Leading Edge Computers and Coopers & Lybrand before moving north to spend seven years with Logical Methods Limited developing DOS and then Windows versions of the popular and award-winning Prophet Series of accounting software.
In 1999 I took up the position I currently hold at Selector Limited where I have been developing web-based psychometric assessment software.
I still think it’s all very cool.
Oh, and I’m very fond of wasabi, in cubes or otherwise. Wasabi-coated peanuts and peas are my new favourite, and I can’t go past wasabi ice cream whenever it’s offered.
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If you feel the need to contact me you can email “peter” at this domain. I'm also a habitual Twitterer.