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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | York, Western Australia, Australia |
| Introduction | **** Translation: "The Sparrow"**** Born in Oxford, England, in 1963 **** Moved to the Land of Oz in 1970 **** Discovered online forums in the 1980s in the days of Viatel and 1200/75 modems and operated the "Split Infinity" bulletin board on the FIDOnet network prior to the proliferation of the WWW.**** Interests include archery, boating, camping, diving, building and renovations, historical research coupled with online debating. **** Favoured fiction authors (in no particular order) include Peter F. Hamilton, Dan Simmons, Stephen Donaldson, and Douglas Adams. **** Countries visited include America, Canada, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, New Zealand, the UK, and typical tourist Europe/EU, oh and But Of Course, Bali. **** There is "no place like home" and it is my view that we have got it better here in our Land Of Oz than anywhere else I've visited.**** Favorite places in Oz include Coral Bay, the Wellington Dam area near Collie, Matilda Bay, Rottnest Island, Point Sampson, Karajini, Smiggins-Perisher Ski fields, Cairns, Uluru, the Gold Coast, the Tamar river in Tasmania, and out of Oz, Queenstown NZ. **** |
| Favorite movies | The Moon Landing, My mum projecting without sound, Abbott and Costello, Australiens ... so many funderful moments. A Wonderful life. :-) |

