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I have always been keen on technical things - formerly electronics and Amateur Radio, currently all aspects of Personal Computers - which I not only find very interesting but these interests have also provided me with a job! Having recently involved in the forefront of mainstream PCs - which meant the Web, Windows servers and networking, deciding on the company's future strategy - I am now earning a living as a software developer and consultant. If you want to say "thanks" for any of my software, here is my Amazon Wish List. I still enjoy presenting papers, and managed to get a paid trip to the DECUS Europe conference in Dublin by presenting a paper on implementing Electronic Mail in my previous company. More recently, we both attended the 2002 EUMETSAT conference which was also in Dublin, the 2004 meeting in Prague, and the 2006 meeting in Helsinki. I have spoken at two Remote Imaging Group events, in Dover and Leicester, and at a Dutch Satellite Workgroup meeting in Utrecht. In February 2004, I was a specially invited speaker representing the UK at the EUMETSAT "MSG goes operational" event in Darmstadt, and I am a regular speaker at the GEO (Group for Earth Observation) Symposia in Leicester and the AMSAT UK meetings in Guildford. I recently help organise the GEO visit to EUMETSAT Headquarters in Darmstadt, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended. Other, more local, excursions are with the Edinburgh Geological Society to various parts of Scotland. I'm quite happy to be a hanger-on, sorry, accompanying person, when Cecilia attends James Joyce conferences, since they are a good crowd and computers do come into Joyce studies. I skip her mid-winter Geology conferences though - not quite the right time of year for the obligatory post-conference field trip, is it? The last time I attended an Amateur Radio event was the Dutch Satellite Work Group's meeting in Utrecht, where I have now spoken on a few occasions. Und ich habe Deutsch gelernt, aber leider habe ich mehr vergessen!
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