About

Hello and welcome to my website.

I’m David Artiss. An IT geek of the highest order. Overweight, short-sighted, into computers and science fiction, I think you’ll find I tick all the boxes required.

I’m a “Southerner” by birth but have spent most of life in the Midlands (but still unable to shake my southern accent) growing up in the middle of nowhere¹. Since I received a Commodore 64 at the age of 12, I realised where my path lay. Having said all that I regular swear at computers and declare that I hate them.

I’ve been an IT professional for 20 years and have been programming since that fateful Commodore 64 Christmas 18 years previously. During the day I work for a rather well-known UK retailer and specialise in the development and support of EPoS, in particular IBM 4690 (in fact I worked for IBM for 4 years). I started off in mainframe programming, however, and it’s away from work that I have honed my web skills. I’m also pretty good with a box of PC components and a screwdriver.

The list of languages (especially web-based ones) I know is pretty lengthy. If you’d like to commission my services, want to give me a job, or even would like me to write a magazine article (I do those too), then please get in touch.

This site, although covering personal comment and customer service, is mainly technical. But then, what else would you expect? It’s not a dedicated “tech” blog and doesn’t get the coverage that many do. None-the-less, it gets comment from Microsoft and Adobe employees, amongst others.

And away from the technical my comments on poor customer service and products have prompted contact from company MD’s and are regularly listed on Google as the top results for come companies.

I am happy to review products at request and, if you’d like to advertise, then that is also possible (especially targeted advertising on particular posts).

If you find any of my posts of interest, or just want to generally argue the toss about something then feel free to leave a comment for any of the entries! You can also contact me using the contact form.

1. in fact, just down the road from Davey Winder, freelance technology journalist and regular PC Pro contributor [↩]