Colin's Rather Boring Homepage

Yes, here it is, all you never wanted to know and less about yours truly.

Work

Computer programmer. Since 1986 working at JET, the European nuclear fusion experiment based at Culham in Oxfordshire. A contractor via my own company, Python Technology Ltd; formerly employed by Hunterskil; previously by SPL International which was taken over by Systems Designers which became SD then SD Scicon and then EDS Scicon (phew!).

Rest

My wife Susie and I live in Abingdon

Play

• Golf, not particularly well (Carswell GC)
• Tennis (Abingdon L.T.C.)
• Ceroc (but not for ages)
• Skiing
• Member and webmaster of Abingdon Marina Residents' Association
• (not for ages) hill walking (see my pictures of the Lake District and Ecuador).

The Early Years

Born 20th November 1960 in Folkestone, Kent. Educated at Kent College, Canterbury and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Even Earlier Years

Read about Hogben family history going back to 4 BC (honestly!). (OK, so it's only back to 1020 AD in an unbroken line.)

Also I have a list of email addresses and homepages of other Hogbens on the Net.

Claims to Fame

Member of British team in 1979 and 1980 International Mathematical Olympiads. Signed nomination of Monster Raving Loony candidate for Cambridge in 1983; former member of the not-quite-infamous-enough Cambridge University Raving Loony Society. Author of the !DemConfig application in the Acorn Internet Starter Pack. Formerly maintainer of the Acornet Freeware suite of Internet software. Once had an oracularity published in the Usenet Oracle Digest.

Favourite Comedy

• Monty Python
• Fry & Laurie
• Fawlty Towers,
• The Fast Show,
• Bill Hicks,
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
• Ben Elton,
• Monty Python (again),
• Blackadder,
• Red Dwarf,
• On The Hour & The Day Today,
• Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partidge,
• Paul Merton,
• Victoria Wood,
• Frank Skinner,
• Rory Bremner,
• Have I Got News For You
• Jo Brand,
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue,
• Monty Python (déjà vu?) ...
• Tim Vine