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Playing with my Computer: (yes, of course it's sad...)
• Panrix AMD Athlon, 64MB Ram, known as 'Alex' (yep, sad again)
• Hard drive space: 6 + 3 Gig
• Modem: US Robotics 56K, but hopefully ADSL soon!
• Operating System: Windows 98 but I'll probably be migrating to some flavour of Linux as soon as I learn some more about it and it has a smoother learning curve.
• Games: I'm not really into shoot-em-ups. I either play computer versions of cerebral games such as some versions of Solitaire or backgammon. For something a bit more active, I go for pinball simulations. I must have tried just about every pinball sim on the market, and my favourite is Psycho Pinball.
• First computer I ever worked on: Apple II in 1984
• Date I first connected to the 'Information Superhighway': 16th April 1995
• Organisation via which the above happened: Compu$erve (YUK!)
• My current Internet Provider: BT Internet

Online activities:

Newsgroups I read and deliberately post to, more or less frequently:
• alt.life.universe.everything, which has a kind of FAQ
• soc.culture.polish, all about all things Polish
• rec.music.classical.guitar, where CG fans (and players, though I'm not one) wibble on forever...
• uk.media.tv.misc - don't just watch it!
• alt.startrek, which is invariably chaotic, but some strange ideas come out occasionally)
• alt.binaries.startrek, where lots of people with lots of people time on their hands (and fast net connections) go crazy
• uk.telecom, whose title is pretty obvious

Newsgroups I read/lurk in:
• I'm not telling (someday I might....)

A few friends' web sites which I think are worth visiting for one reason or another:
• Mo Ballam
• Mark Fowler
• Robin Potter
• Dominic Ramsey
• Anna Warman
• Mike Hughes

People with web sites whom I knew before I went online:
• Rob Cowley
• Mike Oborski

A few web sites I find useful or interesting, and in no particular order:
• Google, my search engine of choice.
• winfiles.com, not an official Microsoft page, and much better for it)
• Windows 95 Annoyances
• The Lightbulb Joke List
• Laura's Garfield Page - all fans of the yellow & black cat have got to see this!
• BigNoseBird, HTML, CGI, Perl scripts and tips, links to other resources...
• The BBC, needs no introduction
• The Register, for a more irreverent view of the news
• Dictionary.com, mainly for The Word Of The Day
• Star Trek.com, for the Trekkie in all of us
• Star Trek in Sound and Vision, worth a link, if only because I'm one of the two people running it. :)

Watching Television:

Shows I watch:
• Movies
• Almost any science fiction, but especially: Star Trek
• Legal dramas
• Natural history series
• Off the wall comedies: The League of Gentlemen, etc

Shows I don't watch:
• soap operas
• sitcoms
• mini-series based on 3inch thick novels

Listening to Music:

Tastes: eclectic (sorry: WEIRD)
• Favourite instrument: guitar (in all forms, but I don't play any of them)
• Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt
• Classical:
  • Favourite Composers: Albeniz, Boccerini, Gershwin, Kilar, Mozart, Ravel, Telemann, Tchaikovsky
  • Favourite Musicians: John Williams, Jehudi Menuhin, Glenn Gould, Sir Georg Solti
• Film Music:
  • almost anything by Jerry Goldsmith or Danny Elfman
• Rock and Pop:
  • Favourite groups/artists: none really, I prefer to go by individual albums, but: The Rolling Stones, Meat Loaf, Dire Straits, Queen, REM, Johnny Cash, Van Morrisson
  • Favourite Groups/artists you've probably never heard of: Sky, Michel Sardou, Francis Cabrel, Daniel Balavoine, Jan Pietrzak, Jacek Kaczmarski, Czerwone Gitary
• Music I don't listen to voluntarily
  • Anything without a recognisable tune
  • Any song where the group can't play their instruments
  • 'Songs' which depend on shouting, not singing

Keeping up with the News

• The BBC
• Local News: The London Evening Standard
• Polish news: Donosy

Travelling:

• Favourite place in the world to visit: Paris, France
• Least Favourite place in the world to live: Paris, France
• Countries I have visited: U.K., Ireland, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Morocco, Tunisia
• Countries I would like to visit: U.S.A., China, Australia, South Africa

Eating

• Favourite food: anything, as long as it's made properly
• Favourite alcocholic drink (short): Krupnik (Polish delicacy based on vodka and honey)
• Favourite alcocholic drink (beer): Theakston's Bitter
• Favourite soft drink: anything uncarbonated
• Favourite hot drink: chocolate (unsweetened)
• Favourite ice cream flavour: Rum 'n' Raisin
• Favourite Fruit Pastilles Flavour: Black

The kind of people I like:

• Those who don't take themselves too seriously
• Those who are prepared to stick up for what they believe in, even if I don't agree
• Those who are prepared to concede having lost an argument
• Those who like me ;)

The kind of people I don't like:

• Spammers
• Bigots
• Those who think political correctness is a good thing
• Those who can't see beyond the tip of their own nose
• Those who don't know how to use 'their', 'there' and 'they're' properly
• Those who say 'I don't like [opera, classical music, pop music, foreign food, ...]' without ever having tried it.
• Those who don't like me ;)