Serjeant, Brian

Lifetime spent (or maybe squandered) in IT, from the mighty old mainframes to current technologies, in the course of which I helped construct some towering edifices: Cathedrals of software... that have vanished like so many houses of straw. Yes, computer applications have a remarkably short lifespan - before collapsing under the relentless advance of new technologies. So at the end of this career (which I did enjoy) there is nothing that I can show my kids and proudly say to them "I built that." The good news is that I was blessed with being born into a world that enjoys the riches of the most...