About
This site belongs to Ian P. Christian. Despite what many think, the 'P.' in my name isn't short for 'Pookey', although lots of people online, and even in real life, know me by that name (this section explains why).
I currently live in Nottingham, and work for Timico in the Network Operations department. You might have bumped into my before at a few PHP related conferences (I've spoken at a couple) or from ISP geek meets.
I got my degree from the University of Plymouth in Computer Systems and Networks.
Feel free to check out my Curriculum Vitae/Resume.
Why Pookey?
Everytime I meet someone new on the internet, they seem to ask me why I call myself pookey, so I am documenting it here!
The first time I was on the internet, back in 1998, I was using MS Comic Chat. In case you have never come across this rather strange program, it’s a chat system, where everyone chooses a cartoon character to look like, and when chatting, things appear as a cartoon strip. As with every chat system, you have to give yourself a name. As I had chosen to be a cat, so I thought I would name myself after one of the cats from Garfield, Pookey.
After a while, I discovered that Pookey was not the name of a cat from Garfield at all, it’s the name of Garfields teddy. More time passes by, before someone pointed out to me, that it’s actually spelt ‘Pooky’.
So, I got the name wrong, and the spelling, but it stuck. Now I own the domain name, it’s too late to change!
