About me

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I have lived in the Midlands of England all of my life. I am married. I have been fortunate to travel the world for both work and pleasure. In fact travel is one of my great passions. I am retired now but worked in a railway computing/IT arena but despite this I only started editing Wikipedia in Feb 2008. I am a Chartered Engineer, a European Engineer and in 2009 I became a Fellow of the IMechE. In Feb 2012, I became an Ambassador for the IMechE and STEMNet as I really want to help young people become interested in technology and engineering.

My Interests

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I am interested in a variety of topics including:

Music

My favourite artists include (in no particular order):

U2 Madonna Coldplay Faithless All Saints Alanis Morissette OneRepublic
The Ting Tings Dido The Enemy Girls Aloud Keane Sugababes OMD
Blondie DJ Tiësto George Michael Ultravox Duran Duran Ian Van Dahl Rihanna
The Human League Jamelia Jean Michel Jarre Justin Timberlake Moby New Order Robyn
Robbie Williams Savage Garden Seal Simple Minds Snow Patrol David Gray The Killers

Top 20 Singles of the Noughties (I struggled to narrow it down to 10!) - not really in any order.

1) I Can’t Let You Go – Ian Van Dahl
2) Who Do You Love Now?RIVA and Dannii Minogue
3) Satellite – OceanLab
4) We Come 1Faithless
5) American DreamJakatta
6) Don’t Stop The MusicRihanna
7) Give It 2 MeMadonna
8) VertigoU2
9) Crazy In LoveBeyoncé
10) Sex On FireKings Of Leon
11) As The Rush Comes – Motorcycle
12) Push The ButtonSugababes
13) Dream OnChristian Falk featuring Robyn
14) Cry For YouSeptember
15) When Love Takes Over - David Guetta
16) Flawless – The Ones
17) Urban TrainDJ Tiësto
18) Sand In My ShoesDido
19) ClocksColdplay
20) Sound of the UndergroundGirls Aloud


Top 10 Albums of the Noughties (In order)
1) Eyes OpenSnow Patrol
2) X&YColdplay
3) Hard CandyMadonna
4) FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake
5) Everything's EventualAppleton
6) Taller In More WaysSugababes
7) Hopes and FearsKeane
8) Life For RentDido
9) We'll Live and Die in These TownsThe Enemy
10) We Started NothingThe Ting Tings


Travel

  • See the countries I have visited below.


Railways


Films


Computing

  • Programming
  • Wikipedia

Countries I have Visited

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