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Born 22 March, 1964 in Insch, Aberdeenshire. Grew up 2.5 mi away in Auchleven until the age of 9 when we moved into Kincorth, Aberdeen. Went to school at Auchleven Primary, Craighill Primary and Robert Gordon's College. Graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1986 with a BSc in Natural Philosophy (a.k.a. Physics). I started a PhD in the same year but never wrote it up due to an inextricable attraction to the use of computers for controlling hardware. Back then the hardware was an x-ray diffractometer. Since then it has been digital set top boxes, car navigation systems, VoIP phones and now I have come full circle to a different kind of scientific instrument. I am a bit of a loner but have spent the last 20+ years of my life with Pauline. We are the proud owners of a cat, a dog, a newish car that has a no more payments to go. We 'own' the house we live in, but only in the sense that the bank lets us live in it in exchange for a large payment every month. I love the type of work I do. I (mostly) like the people I work with. I have no hobbies and spend my off-work time reading Science Fiction, reading a tech book, watching movies and teaching the dog not to lick my feet/legs/face/arms. I am not succeeding with the dog. He is very stubborn. More so than me which says a lot.