Added on Friday 13 May 2011

1. Has received an award from the king of Sweden; The Global Bangemann Challenge award for work related to web accessibility.
2. Is a published author of technical books and web accessibility guides (author/editor of the current Scottish Accessible Information Forum Accessible website design guide).
3. Was a runner up in the UK 'Grolsch live wire' songwriting content.
4. Worked for a time as a statistics and research methods lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University.
5. Worked as a computer programmer from 1979 until 1982 with a business called Computrav; programming 'mini' computers which used 12" circular storage discs that screwed in to a large cabinet.
6. Co-wrote a song with Marti Pellow of Wet Wet Wet. Marti Pellow who grew up in the same town (Clydebank) and is related through his mothers sister.
7. Runs a web design and development business aimed at the Voluntary, public and education sector and is a specialist in accessible web design.
8. Played guitar in the Psychadelic rock band, The Primevals.
9. Has American Indian blood in him - as a result of through a turn of the 19th century marriage between an Irish booth boxer and a touring Cowboys and Indians show.
10. Attended Glasgow School of Art as a teenager after winning an art contest in the Glasgow Herald.

Here is where you can get free downloads of two of Jim's songs plus a free ring tone.