You've stumbled onto the website of Mark Richards, aka Savvo, formerly known as ... well that would be telling and I just don't know you well enough to reveal my dirty little secrets yet.
Who are you and what are you doing in my house?
Well thanks for asking, but who the hell are you?
Oh all right then. I'm a struggling photographer, former software engineer and generally nice chap with the usual complement of chips on my shoulder and unusually charming quirks.
Photographer you say? Where are your photos?
Well there are a few on the Ryton Camera Club website. That will have to do you for now because I'm not going to point you at my commercial site. One never knows who's looking and I'm not allowed to trade right now.
There are quite a few pictures of me around the place. Here's a few
I've got a blog if you really need to probe my neuroses.
Software Engineer? Did you write anything I would have used?
Probably not. I worked in embedded systems, mostly on industrial applications, many of which never saw production. But there are a few things that did see the light of day.
That bag of crisps you're eating might have been filled on a machine that I contributed a small amount of code to.
If you ever operated certain makes of electric pallet truck or aerial work platform you may have trusted your, and your colleagues', wellbeing to software I wrote.
If you own a very obscure, long-obsolete model of GSM phone there might be tiny sections of its firmware with my fingerprints on them.
If you were ever engaged in blood research you might well have used an electrophoresis power supply that I worked on.
Did you work at a factory making lead-acid batteries? Three such facilities at one time used battery formers for which I wrote an awful lot of the software.