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It's always rather difficult to describe oneself, but I'll have a go. I'm male, human (or close) and nearly 40 years old. I'm English by birth and now live and work on the south coast of the UK. I recently moved back here from Paris, where I worked for a huge great big American networking company.

Outside of 'real' work, I do a bunch of other stuff: I used to write and edit for an online games magazine and I still play a heck of a lot of computer games. I'm a big film lover, with a collection of (probably well over) 1,000 or so cassettes and DVDs in various languages. Music-wise, I'm a goth-cum-new-wave lover, enjoying The Cure, Sisters, Siouxsie, Bauhaus, All About Eve, Depeche Mode and so on. Add a healthy mix of techno and dance-trance to that, some jazz and some other stuff... well, it's all a bit eclectic, isn't it?

I'm an animal lover, with a cat (Biscotte) at home and another cat (Pie 'Oh' Pah) who lives at my mother's - he doesn't get on with Biscotte. He's very happy there, though: he was rescued (by me) from an abusive owner and now has a huge garden, a loving owner and fresh seaside air! I used to have two rabbits, two guinea pigs and seven rats as well, but they died of old age or illness.

Apart from that, I'm tall, skinny, a computer geek, Capricorn, pagan, read Tarot, am intrigued by languages, psychology, theology and astronomy, read books too quickly, try to write fiction, eat too much chocolate and pizza, smoke, laugh easily, walk rather than use public transport, destroy my PC too often, spend too much money, use too many commas and write long sentences. Whatever spare time all that leaves me, I use to sleep.