Welcome! Firstly, given that there are multiple billions of active
pages on the interweb, I will assume that you haven't reached this
site by random chance alone and thank you for your interest in my
little corner of the net. If you have reached here by random chance
then you should immediately run out and buy a lottery ticket while
your luck warp lasts. Try not to get hit by a bus while you are doing this
as the irony would be too much for me to handle.
My name is John Girvin and I was born in 1973 in
Northern Ireland, where I still live
today. For the geographically challenged, Northern Ireland is the small bit at the top of the
small bit beside the
United Kingdom mainland, which is the
small bit just north of mainland Europe.
This is my website, girv dot net. "girv" has been my nickname since I
was about 15 years old - I've been called many things over the years but "girv"
is the only nick that's really stuck the course. The website itself has been around under
various domains and designs since 1996 and this incarnation is probably more-or-less
approximately in the region of number four(ish). Kinda. You'd think I'd be better at it by now.
From an early age, since the 8-bit "home micro" heyday of the early 1980s, my
primary obsession has been with programming and computers in general, with games being
the focus of this obsession. I've spent many hours playing games, many many hours developing them, and many many many hours hacking and
cracking them for various nefarious reasons. The interest
in computing has, not surprisingly, guided my academic and professional careers from early on, and I now find myself employed as a senior software
engineer developing Java based software for insurance
companies. It's not rock and roll, but I like it. Which is handy since I was never much good
at anything else.
Apart from all that there computering, I'm also interested in cycling, movies and most things
sci-fi. I mainly like the "hard" variety of sci-fi, where the science fiction is more
or less based on science fact, as it annoys the physics geek in me when something on screen or
in a book obviously can't work the way it's portrayed without invoking magic. But then again,
I always remember what Mr. Clarke said about magic so I try not to let it spoil things too much!
If you'd like to contact me to comment on the site or for any other reason, you can use any of
the following methods:
Well there you have it - some little insight into your webmaster in real life! Thanks for taking
an interest in this site and I hope you enjoy what you find here.
Have fun!
