The short version

I am tiny. I require hugs at regular and frequent intervals.

The long version

I am a computer programmer living in Oxford. I love to read, particularly SF/fantasy, listen to music and play around on the internet, constantly tinkering with my website as form of relaxation. I live with a lovely pussy cat called Cassie and a lovely man called oxfordslacker. Well, not actually called that obviously.

I was once addicted to tea but have kicked the habit meaning that I'm now no longer a caffine junkie and no longer get colds all the time in winter. I believe these two facts are connected. I'm usually on a diet - currently, I'm doing pretty well with Weightwatchers. I love good food, good wine and cooking, which can be an impediment to dieting, but doesn't have to be if you pay attention.

Although I don't talk about it much, I could be described as a Christian. I'm on the wussy liberal wing and subscribe to a historical-critical view of the Bible. I don't have a denomination as such and I'm not a regular church-goer, although I will pay a visit every now and then when the fancy takes me.

Politically I'm a liberal and a libertarian to some degree. I'm passionatly interested in politics without having any desire to get involved myself. I'm addicted to news and current affairs, which I get mostly from Radio 4. Actually, I like a lot of stuff on Radio 4, despite being under 40, and have even been known to take pleasure in the Archers.

Although I've never had a girlfriend, I have had sex with a woman and consider myself to be bi-sexual. I'm more likely to be attracted to women than men in general, Alex being one of the relativly few men I've ever had sexual feelings for.

Now I've been keeping this journal for a while, I've learned to spell definite, but my spelling is not great when deprived of spellchecking facilities, I abuse the comma and the bracket and misplace apostropes on occasion. Polite corrections are accepted, but play nice :)

I help out on the support board for kicks, and am now the category administrator for Scrapbook (w00t!). I've had SH in Embedding, GUNK, Syn, Styles and Web at various times although I mostly stick to SB these days. You can see the first request I tried to answer - not bad for a newbie but I've got much better since then :) I occasionally post about support related stuff to a filter, to spare the rest of my friends the pain - if you want to read that stuff, tell me and I'll add you.

If there's anything else you want to know, go ahead and ask

Further reading:

About my userpics.
Me interviewed by other people
My quotescrape

Last updated: 2006-06-03

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