Personal Info
Stupid Viking
My name is Cliff Pearson, I’m 41 years old and live in a little village on the North-east Essex coast, to the eastern side of the UK, some 70-odd miles from London with my wife of 22 years, Wendy. We don’t have any kids, but a cat, a dog and a pair of cockatiels keep us busy!
(Sorry about the stupid viking picture, but all the others were worse, believe me!)
I’ve always worked in IT and have been a web developer for 13 years now. I’ve focused on ColdFusion for the past 12 years and have been self employed for almost 9 years now.
Favourite TV shows include Heroes, Prison Break, House, 24, Doctor Who, Jericho, QI, Life On Mars, Battlestar Galactica, Bones & Waking The Dead.
Food – I cook a mean Italian and my wife says I’m a better cook than she is!
Outside of computers and the Interweb, my main passion is music. I was a part-time DJ for about 20 years, but retired recently, due to health problems (it’s a young man’s sport!) I dabble with various instruments – mainly keys and bass guitar.
I’m a Progressive Rock fan – a deeply unfashionable musical genre which most people dismiss. I won’t start preaching about it here, but yes, there are people still making this music, it didn’t die out in 1976, despite what the press might want you to believe!
Curious? Then I urge you to check out the bands listed in the panel on the right.
Probably the strangest thing I’ve ever done (apart from skiing) was to dress as a pregnant bride at a friend’s wedding, chasing the groom around the hall to the sounds of Yvonne Fair’s ‘It Should Have Been Me’! (No, Vicar Of Dibley fans, I’m afraid that wasn’t an original Richard Curtis idea – I did this in 1990 and have video evidence! B->).
The sub pages on the right detail various bits of information about me, my family and what I do for fun.