The Lost Inheritance, Chapter 01: Contents

001	Curriculum Vitae: Robert John Morton - Programmer, Writer and Thinker
	Educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and The Regent Street Polytechnic. Worked for Redifon, Scicon and ITT Europe, before becoming freelance in 1976.
002	Cut My Share: Experiencing The Dark and Devious Side of Business
	The marketing agreement for my software was between me and a marketing company, which agreed that as owner of the software I would get 40% of the retail price.
003	Gone Bust: A Painful Introduction To The Meaning of Limited Liability
	This company did not go bust. Its director manipulated it so that it was not in its creditors' best interests to try to sue it. Immoral but completely legal.
004	Home-Based Working: Enabling a Wasted and Rejected Source of IT Skills
	Could the so-called IT 'skills shortage' be largely a skills wastage? I submit that there is a vast national reserve of IT skill which is inexcusably rejected.
005	Robert John Morton YE572246C: College, Employment & Freelance Projects
	My college laser research project and the commercial electrical research & software development projects I worked on as a corporate employee from 1966 to 1976.
006	Robert John Morton: Brief Summary of My Freelance Work History
	Electrical apprentice, electrical research assistant, programmer, systems analyst, technical writer, software developer, businessman, unemployed layabout.
007	Robert John Morton: Employment History: Programmer, Analyst, Writer
	Electrical apprentice, electrical research assistant, programmer, systems analyst, technical writer, software developer, businessman, unemployed layabout.
008	Robert John Morton: Formal Education: Colchester Royal Grammar School
	I received excellent primary and secondary education but not at the tertiary level. Yet it was only when my formal education ended that my real education began.
009	Robert John Morton: History & Modus Operandi of My Business 1977-1991
	Programmer/analyst/developer: I can contribute to your project from simply providing fresh ideas all the way to taking a full part in its practical realisation.
010	Robert John Morton: History of My Personal Projects While Unemployed
	Programmer/analyst/developer/businessman/unemployed layabout. Small software projects I did to keep my skills up to date from when I became unemployed in 1991.
011	Robert John Morton: Programming Experience [FORTRAN IId to Java 11]
	For one who has followed the development of programming over 30 years, switching to a new language is trivial. A pity agency flibbertigibbets can't see that.
012	Robert John Morton: Projects Index
	Electrical apprentice, electrical research assistant, trainee programmer, programmer, systems analyst, technical writer, software developer, businessman, unemployed layabout. I can contribute to your project from simply providing fresh ideas all the way to taking a full part in its practical realisation.
013	Robert John Morton: Software Packages: EBS Marketeer/Author's Delight
	I wrote and developed a contacts manager and a paragraph processor, the first of which I also sold and supported through my own business between 1980 and 1990.
014	Robert John Morton: Technical Writing Experience: Employed & Freelance
	I have devoted half my career to technical writing, during which I have seen a revolution in authoring aids including 'Author's Delight', which I wrote myself.
015	Welfare (Social Security Benefits): How Much and Who Decides?
	The amount of money provided by State welfare depends on the attitude the many have towards the few who are denied the opportunities which the many are given.
016	White Elephant Projects: What Would the IT Industry do Without Them?
	Throughout my career I have seen unceasing torrents of government money poured recklessly into projects which could not possibly end other than in failure.

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