This web site is in the process of being completely restructured, with a gleaming new URL. The site will focus on the Laboratory for Micro Enterprise, but I will leave this home page in place for now.
I studied engineering at Cambridge, and worked for 10 years in London as a structural engineer. In 1973 I started John Storrs Workshop , a craft enterprise making musical instruments, which survived for 30 years. I'm a technologist by nature, and I applied my interests in that activity, writing lots of software and making two computer controlled machine tools which were in daily use. With that background, and as a reaction to the mindless difficulties facing enterprises today, in 1995 I established the Laboratory for Micro Enterprise as an independent r&d organisation aiming to assist very small enterprises (most of us) with effective and affordable tools. Since 1998 I have been employed at Culham Laboratories in the UK, where I write realtime control software for fusion research.
I'm a firm believer in the value of cooperation (rapidly becoming a lost art), and very enthusiastic about the free software movement on the Internet. I'm a great fan of Linux, the free un*x system (thank you Linus, the Free Software Foundation, and everyone). To someone like myself used to battering his head against the brick walls of the market system, the synergy on the net is truly amazing and encouraging.
Laboratory for Micro Enterprise, 8 The Green, Culham, Abingdon X14 4LZ.