I just saw your information posting in the uk.linux newsgroup (at least I think it was there) and thought I'd come and see what you do here.
I've been in computing professionally since 1970 so I've seen a few changes over the years! :-)
Currently I'm a C/C++/Java programmer with a company in Ipswich. I live at Newbourne out in the sticks (where there's no ADSL).
I'm a Unix/Linux junkie, have been since the 1980s. My desktop machine at work is a Sun Solaris box but is soon to be changed to a PC running RedHat. At home I have a Slackware 9.1 'server' machine that runs all the time.
It would be good to try and get some face-to-face meetings in Ipswich going again.