“My obsession began, really, with #RidleyScott’s #Alien,” he says. “I watched it every single day for the two weeks that we had it – 14 times in 14 days.”

“#Columns, #lists and #movies are the essential ingredients of Needham’s life. “I’ve been tracking every movie that I’ve seen since the first of January, 1980,” he tells me.

The 58-year-old Mancunian began his working life as a #ComputerEngineer at #HewlettPackard, and owes his career and his fortune to two other pieces of technology: #VCRs and the #Internet. But it all started in his bedroom, as a 14-year-old, with a simple #notebook and #pen.”

#IMDB / #data / #ColNeedham / 🎥🎬📼 <https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/imdb-founder-on-how-a-14-day-alien-bender-gave-birth-to-an-internet-monster-20250820-p5mocu.html> / <https://archive.md/u5kqW>

👋 Just joined this local instance (which I helped set up)

I work as a computer engineer and also run a VoIP co and web design co.

Outside of work you’ll usually find me:

🚁 Flying drones
🚐 In my VW T5
🌲 In the New Forest
❤️ Spending time with my other half & our kids

Looking forward to connecting with people locally & beyond!

#Introduction #NewHere #SelfHosted #VoIP #WebDesign #ComputerEngineer #Drones #VWT5 #NewForest #FamilyTime #LocalCommunity #Southampton #Hampshire #UKTech #UKMastodon

I've spent the last few days putting together a personal website to show off the projects I've worked on that don't really fit on my #resume. So far in my career I haven't really been able to use my hardware skills, so I feel like I'm missing out on opportunities to work with hardware hands-on.

I'm going to keep adding more to it, but it's at a point where it shows the major projects I've worked on outside of my day job.

https://jack-case.pro

#Portfolio #PersonalSites #ComputerEngineer

With so many computer engineers - and people with related skills - joining the Mastodon servers, I am hoping that someone can develop an interface or app that allows media services and government to communicate across servers in the event of an emergency or crisis. Is this doable?

#ComputerEngineer #CrisisCommunication #Emergencies #Journalists #Media