Pete Bevin - Internet work

...Yeah, I'm a web geek, both professionally and for fun.

I got my first Internet account back in the late 80s - before the Web. I try hard to use it to bring people together, rather than contribute to making the Internet "just another advertising medium". Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do that for real money, so mostly I do it for free.

• I run a number of cancer related web sites.
  • Breast cancer mailing list archives.
  • Inflammatory Breast Cancer support mailing list and web site.
  • Metastatic Breast Cancer support mailing list and web site.
• I keep some tools for solving crossword puzzles.
• I was once (at least partly!) responsible for FSP* until it died a death. Maybe if people are right about the imminent demise of the Internet, it'll become useful again. It still needs a good protocol rewrite, though.
• I used to do combinatorial optimization* for a British company called ICL, where I wrote the scheduling bits of TankerPower, a system for Texaco to schedule their road fleet. A lot of fun, and pretty um...challenging. Part of that business was bought out in 1998 and trades as ServicePower - using pretty much the code I wrote back in 1992!
• I keep a guide to RFC documents, which tries to keep track of the juicier papers. The main feature is a guide to all the joke standards.