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<H2> Bob Pockney</h2>
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For your sins, you have reached my personal web page. I work at ULCC as a
system administrator in the Computing Services Group. My job title would seem
to be "Unix Consultant" or even "Senior Systems Consultant"
which sounds much more impressive.
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My particular skills seem to be installing Operating systems and adding
the apparently never ending stream of patches that emanate from Sun and SGI.
I also keep a close eye on what's happening on the
ULCC systems.
This used to be quite rewarding in that I sometimes got the chance to go
and shout at some poor unsuspecting applications programmer who thought
that the system was for their own, exclusive, personal use.
Now, of course, all our applications
programmers have left, so I just have to shout at passing pigeons instead.
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If you want to find out more about what ULCC does check out our
<a href=http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/> home page</a>.
Currently, I know that I'll still be at ULCC for a while yet (what have I
done to deserve this?).
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It has been observed that when I'm on leave, I'm still likely to be working
from home. Here is a <a href="bob01.jpg"> picture</a> of me
in my computer room slaving over a hot
Pentium. I live in the small town of Flitwick in Bedfordshire. In the good old
days before commuting arrived it was somewhat smaller and rustic. Here are
a <a href="flit1.jpg"> couple</a> of <a href="flit2.jpg"> pictures</a> of what
it was like in the past.
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One of my interests is Formula 1 motor racing. In 1998 I was fortunate enough
to spend a day at TAG McLaren having a tour of their facilities - impressive
would be an understatement ! Here is a <a href="mcclaren.jpg"> picture</a>
of me taken with the MP4-13 - their 1998 car. This was arranged via one of their
sponsors - Sun Microsystems. Later in 1998, thanks to Informix this time, I went
to the Benetton F1 facility for the day.
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Although I often still keep in touch with work when I'm supposed to be on leave,
there are exceptions. Follow this <a href=petrol.html>link</a> to see what I
did in the autumn of 1999 and the awful consequences of what followed !
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Now, following on from this was my 50th birthday. This looks like it might
have consequences as well. Follow this <a href=steam.html>link</a> to see what
happened this time !
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A far less glamorous activity I've been introduced to is
Ten Pin bowling - read the
<a href=tenpin.html>gory details</a>.
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