Who...?
Who is the Editor of IT Reviews?
He is.
This site is edited by Alex Cruickshank, freelance journalist. I started the project in May 1998, intending to bring clear, accurate, unbiased and occasionally entertaining reviews to anyone interested in, or involved in, the IT industry. And maybe blag a few PlayStation games along the way. So it's been at least a partial success.
Some history... after graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London, with a degree in Physics & Astrophysics (I'm a practical man), and following various stints as a technical translator, a language tutor, a proof-reader and a graphic designer, I joined computer games publisher Maxis as a technical support bloke just before the launch of SimCity 2000.
Great fun. I stuck the 60 phone calls a day for seven months and then slid gracefully into Ziff-Davis as the Technical Analyst for PC Direct magazine. I was soon promoted to Technical Editor (since everyone else had resigned - not my fault), before jumping ship in 1996 to head out into the uncharted oceans of freelance journalism.
Since then I've contributed to PC Magazine, PC Direct, PC Week, IT Week, PC Gaming World, Business Computer World, Computer Life, ComputerActive, Inside, Computing, Internet Magazine, .Net, Practical Internet, Start & Run Your Business, PC Utilities, PC Explorer, Mobile Computing and various other large and small magazines, some of which now Rest In Peace (again, not my fault... honest).
My interests include photography, astronomy and motorsport (doing, not watching). I got into motorbiking a few years ago and I'd like to try motorbike racing, although awareness of my own mortality and lack of aptitude is making me uncharacteristically cautious. And I'm writing a best-selling novel, of course. One day, one day.
Leisure pursuits include clubbing (I'm old enough to know better... and old enough not to care), snow-boarding (likewise), press parties/jaunts/freebies and Guinness-fuelled misbehaviour with friends and colleagues. I now live amidst the eccentric debauchery of Brighton & Hove with my wife and baby daughter, and love it, having spent several years in the vacuous DIY-infested drudgery of the suburbs. I'm in my mid- (cough... late) thirties and loving that, too.
To keep my brain active I studied for a degree in Psychology with the Open University a few years ago, which made a refreshing change from all things IT. I'm involved in one or two other publishing projects, both print and online, and I'm occasionally available for contract work (editorial, Internet/Intranet project management and so on), having worked for various blue-chip companies and UK government departments, including the development and launch of the www.businesslink.gov.uk site.
I can be contacted via this link.
NB: I have no presence on Facebook, MySpace or any other social networking sites. IT Reviews is the only site through which you can contact me. Other people may share my name, but they ain't me.
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