DevonTed

DevonTed

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  • 生命中的遗憾

    I should have travelled MUCH, MUCH more while I was younger. My advice to a younger self would be to get a skill you can do anywhere, then bugger off and do it everywhere; you'll see the world while keeping yourself fed, clothed & sheltered.

  • 我总是喜欢谈论……

    I enjoy talking about many, many things, and I'll list a few here in no particular order. Please don't think that I am restricted to these matters alone. After all, There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

    Beer and brewing
    Politics
    Faith and religion
    cooking and food
    Technology and computer
    Sailing and yachting

  • 我的与众不同之处

    I bake the best Victoria Sponge cake that I have ever had, so much so that I once beat the head of the local Women's Institute in a baking contest, much to her indignation.

  • 我是……的专家

    Boringly I am an expert in the field of IT, both in cloud-based architectures and the software solutions which run upon them. This is because it's my day job, and I must do something to pay the bills. I am, in fact, what used to be derogatively called a "geek", which means both that I am capable of using polysyllabic words in a sentence and that I can actually bear my own company while fixing some other fool's problem.

  • 我曾去过的国家和城市

    I have mainly only travelled for work, but I have been to Italy, Denmark and Portugal.
    Although I hold a Yachtmaster sailing qualification I have never sailed abroad due to work constraints.

  • 最喜欢的书籍/作者/电影

    Books, wow, so many to choose from:
    All of Discworld,
    The Odyssey by homer,
    any of the Rebus crime novels
    Just too may to name

    Authors:
    The Holy Spirit
    C.S. Lewis,
    G. K. Chesterton,
    JRR Tolkien,
    Agatha Christie,
    Alexandre Dumas,
    Andrzej Sapkowski,
    C. J. Sanson,
    Diana Gabaldon

    Films:
    Roman Holiday,
    The Third Man,
    The Ipcress File,
    The Good, The Bad & The Ugly,
    One flew over the Cuckoo's nest.
    The Shining,
    ...

  • 个人挑战

    I want to learn three languages so that I can get a better understanding of my world.
    Ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew

  • 个人技能

    I’m a certified Yachtmaster and therefore a very keen sailor,

    I brew some rather excellent all grain beers and porters

    I can pretty much make a computer do anything is ask of it.

    I recently bought my first sports car, no it’s not part of a mid-life crisis

  • 童年的欢乐

    I’m old enough to be of a generation where we were allowed to play outdoors and that freedom was my greatest pleasure. Being able to explore the countryside with a gang of pals, build tree houses and rope swings. Those days were heavenly.

  • 一个诀窍或建议

    Before calling IT support, check:

    Is it switched on?
    Is it really switched on, at the all too?
    Should it have paper in it?
    Has it got paper in it?
    Is the screen on (see above)

    Have you tried turning off, and back on again?

  • 完善学校制度

    Get better school governors and make sure the money raise is spent wisely

  • 没有障碍的事业

    Is one boring career

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