Clive Roberts worked as the lead developer on a VB6 project to deliver a front-end application to Local Government. Councillors used the application during their `surgeries` with the public to record details of the meetings, take actions including diary integration. Based on the outcome of these actions the application would integrate seamlessly with Office XP generating letters, faxes and emails based on standardised templates. The application had to be secure and ensure that the confidential material contained was stored and processed in a secure manner.
This application had to be `self-teaching` and include help and advice tips so that any councillor or local government worker could walk up and use the application with no training.

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Record Player owners valued their players and their records. Some people say that the sound produced through a high quality Record Player was rich, and it cannot be compared to the digital players of today. They believe that a Record Player was in a class of its own, and it also had its own charm. A Record Player is quite different in terms of operation. You have a turntable on which a record to be played rotates continuously, and a stylus that could read the music from the rotating record. Today`s modern digital players have a similar function. You have a rotating digital disc and a laser beam that reads the music.