Ian runs an information management consultancy based in the UK and his day job mostly involves picking apart and rebuilding taxonomies for complex information systems, and writing software for the Mac and iPhone. He spends as much time as is left over from doing this stuff climbing hills in the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales.

He lives with his wife Caroline, children Alice and Ben, and dog Meg in Warwickshire. Despite any indications to the contrary in these pages, he regards Marmite as, on the whole, the best thing on sliced bread.