About me…
I was born before the Intel 8088, making me part of the (old-school) “cool” 8-bit generation. I received my first computer, an Apple IIe, at the age of 6. I currently serve as the Group Chief Information Security Officer at Orange.
About the hatter logo…
The “hatter logo” is taken from the original illustration by John Tenniel in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
A game that deeply influenced me was Magnetic Scrolls’ Wonderland (1990). It featured a whimsical Mad Hatter on the box cover, and the character has been my avatar ever since. I still own a pristine box of the original game.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
— The Mad Hatter.
Why opium.io? I chose opium.io as a domain name not as an endorsement of drugs, but because of two books very dear to me: “Les paradis artificiels” by Charles Baudelaire and “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” by Thomas de Quincey.
Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth)
— Thomas de Quincey “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”
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