My name is Kevin and I write and support the software found here, and I own the domain and created/manage this website.
Hobbies include computers, computer programming (started back around 1984 on the then-popular Commodore 64 and moved on to Windows programming around 1995 or 1996). Later on came Excel VBA, Android and Java programming. I’m also very much into music, drums & bass, motorcycling, and electronic gadgets.
I also came up with the original 30-second hiccup cure found on this website. I discovered it years ago (after an unusually long round of hiccups) and it was added to this website as an afterthought back in late 2004 while trying to think of new content to add. I’m humbled that it has helped so many people (over 11,000 worldwide) get rid of their hiccups. The original webpage was even briefly visible as a search result in a Google Nexus commercial in 2012 (45 seconds into it), which was very cool to spot.
What is “Cognitial”?
After having written a couple different applications for Windows prior to 2002 and primarily distributing them through AOL, I wanted to have my own website and give myself a better “company name” for my programming adventures. Back then I was using KevSoft or KMD Software. Eventually I chose Cognitial as a play on the word cognition.
cognition [kog-nish–uhn]
noun
- the act or process of knowing; perception.
- the product of such a process; something thus known, perceived, etc.
- knowledge.