The little start-up that could

jnorthrop: Charlie is me; these days I'm a full-time novelist, but back in the 80s and 90s I had a real job. This is part #9 of an ongoing series of autobiographical posts on my blog, about what I did before I ended up writing novels for a living.

Here's the navigation page to the first seven stories: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/06/the_stor...

Here's a FAQ about my books: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/faq.html

Here's what wikipedia says about me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Stross

So this leads to a partly finished story with a "to be continued" link at the end -- and that's it? Who is Charlie and what is he building? Is it some fabulous company now?

It's an interesting start to a story but it's just the start.

Ah, NatWest Streamline how I miss thee. Where one learns that all those security questions you've been asked by retailers before turn to dust by the time it gets on the wire!

We had a POTS Modem doing ours one dial-up per transaction. You being re-directed to our payment taking portal from your website because it was one SSL per IP. Fun Fun