After having a wide variety of web sites over the years, I decided I needed one single place to keep all my stuff. This is it. If you find something useful or interesting, I'm very happy for you.

Bremen Saki?

Bremen Saki is an anagram of my name; Mike Barnes. I like it. I've been looking for a new alias for a while, since I got sick of using Strepsil about a decade ago.

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Strepsil?

Strepsil was the short version of "Strepsil van Bits". See, back in 1992 or so, I was driving down the road one day, and stopped behind a small van that had a sticker on the back advertising a business called "Van Bits". I thought that sounded more like an exotic surname than a business name, and then a tram went past with an ad for Strepsils on the side.
The pieces fell together and I had a BBS username. It stuck, for lack of anything better coming to mind.

Who?

I suppose it's possible that you've stumbled upon this site and have no idea who I am. I'm not sure how to help you, really. I suppose the most obvious things to mention are that I'm a single dad with a six year old daughter, I work in IT, and I wish I was more creative than I am.

For more detail, try just browsing around the site.