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I didn't have the faintest idea what I wanted to do when I left school, so I got a secretarial qualification and proceeded to be reasonably well-paid and never out of work for more than a day or two for the next 12 years or so. During the latter part of that time I 'discovered' computers and managed to do the classic career change - "as a secretary, if you find something you want to do, you can get a secretarial job in that area and move into your chosen field from there ...". Eight years later I am webmaster and just beginning to become a 'proper' computer programmer.
My hobbies are reading (mostly sci-fi/fantasy, historical and crime fiction), dancing, playing my own trumpet (literally - well, cornet, anyway, in a brass band), maine coon cats (a very large cuddly domestic breed - see photo) and collecting the entire series of the X-Files on video and DVD. Oh, and writing stories, too ... one day I'll get that lucky break ... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The attachment to sci-fi and the X-Files are what first sent me wandering in the direction of Seti@home - that and the conviction that of all the uncountable numbers of planets out there it's just not feasible that there isn't intelligent life out there somewhere. I mean, it seems so unconscionably arrogant to assume that we are the only ones that can possibily exist ...
I have to say that I think there's a strong probability that when we do find it, this extraterrestrial intelligent life will turn out to be way ahead of us! At least, I hope they will be more 'mature' as a race than we are - I'm still not convinced we won't end up obliterating ourselves eventually - and given the ridiculous nature of some of the 'beacons' we've sent out, they're going to need a sense of humour! |
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