Who are we?
We are John Croudy, some Pink Mice and other furry things.
Where are we?
Latitude: 60° 26' North, Longitude: 22° 16' East (Turku, Finland)
About John
I'm John Croudy, the creator of Pink Mouse Productions and the author of PMIO and Camembert. A self-taught programmer, I have been working with computers since 1979 and have programmed in raw hex, assembler, BASIC, FORTRAN, C, and C++. I was born in London, but since 1996 I have been living in Finland.
I have worked in many areas of computing. From 1979 to 1988 I worked in the computer room of a large insurance company in the UK, and discovered the joys of ICL mainframes and DEC's VAX mini computers. From 1988 to 1996 I worked for various companies in the computer games industry, on such titles as Silkworm, Ninja Warriors and Die Hard Trilogy. In 1996 I moved to Finland to live with my (now ex) girlfriend who I met on a USENET newsgroup back in 1994.
Being a bit of a perfectionist, I have long been disillusioned with the state of the software world. I am often disappointed even with the results of my own work. This is the precise reason why Pink Mouse's Planetarium was never finished — it was just never good enough.
I am currently working at Le Bihan Enterprises writing plug-in software for Rhinoceros. In my spare time, I take photos, play chess, read, make music (or will when my muse returns from vacation). I am interested in the Ancient Romans, the preservation of old / obsolete machines and software, and I collect antique clocks. I also seem to collect ex-girlfriends.
My personal stuff is collected here:
Of Mice and Sprice.