I'm a 20 year old student at Queen's
University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I'm near the end of my second
year and I'm now studying Physics with Materials Science .
I live in Belfast during term time, but outside of term time I live in
the Republic of Ireland at home with my family. I live in a small town
called Strokestown in County Roscommon, which is approximately in the middle
of Ireland.
My interests are quite wide ranging, I'm very interested in computers.
Currently my main area of interest in computers is the Internet and HTML
Authoring. I'm also a great fan of Science-Fiction especially Star Trek.
I also like to read Science-Fiction & Thriller novels. Among my favourite
authors are Stephen King and James Herbert. As for music, my tastes are
extremely wide ranging, I like Blues, Soul, R&B and finally I'm known
to occasionally listen to Classical music.
I've listed some of my interests below along with a few sparse links. I
haven't got the time at the moment to sort out the rest of my links and
add them here. Maybe I'll get some time later ! When you've finished
looking at my other pages why don't you go over to 
Science-Fiction
I'm a major league Star Trek fan, my favourite series
was Star Trek - The Next Generation , which has unfortunately been
stopped as a TV Series. But, thankfully the next few Star Trek films
will have it's crew.
Of the newer Star Trek series I have to say I prefer Deep Space
9 to Voyager.
Music
The types of music I like are: Blues/R&B;
Soul; and some Classical Music pretty much in that order. so far I have
been able to find very few links to these, but I'm working on that all
the time !
My interest in Blues music stems from a film called "The Blues
Brothers" which came out in 1980. So I have also included some
URL's for various bits of Blues Brothers material.
At the moment I haven't any links for my other music interests which I
can show you, however I hope to have some for when I update the page next.
Online Chatting & Conferencing
My two main interests in the Internet currently
are HTML and Conferencing.
For me the advantages of this form of communication is the huge audience
which is out there and which wants to here what you have to say and also
the speed at which communications can take place.
So with that in mind I've included my favourite links to these resources.
- The first of these is Cafe Utne. This takes the form of a conference where users "post up" there messages to the Cafe. There are a large number of conferences in which one can participate, and they seem to cater for all interests. You will have to register before you can go inside the "Cafe". This can take 2-3 weeks if you are male or 2-3 days if you are female. This is due to the fact that the organisers of the Cafe are attempting to redress the problem of male domination on the Internet. So far they seem to have been quite successful.
- The second site of interest is an online chatting zone, aptly called The Chatting Zone (aka TCZ) This is quite an active site and the conversation tends to be fast and furious most of the time. It is laid out like a Multi-User-Dungeon with most of the activity centred around the pub !
Computers & Technology
You've probably guessed by now that I'm quite
big into computers, so this section probably won't come as any surprise
to you. I'm interested in several of the platforms currently available
and not so currently ! :-). At home I have an Atari STe which despite it's
age and relative lack of available software I still find useful. Unfortunately,
the Atari ST range of computers hsa all but collapsed at this point, so
I'm going to try and keep uptodate details on software available over the
'Net for them here.
Football
I'm also a dedicated follower of soccer in the
English Premier League. I support Coventry City (Laughter is not acceptable
at this point). Relegation was almost an issue at the end of last season,
but thankfully it was narrowly avoided. This season things haven't exactly
gotten off to a roaring start, but that's football for you !
Physics
Well I am a Physicist so for anyone else who is interested I've decided to stick in a few links to useful Physics sites.
- The Institute of Physics.(UK & Ireland).
- The homepage for NEXUSa student Physics newsletter.
- A physics links page
- Another links page for Physics !
Acknowledgements & Hello's
Well, now that you have finally gotten to the bottom
of this page ( I hope you enjoyed it !) I have to mention a few people
quickly in conjunction with this page production. I'd like to say a quick
thanks to the people at Cafe Utne who provided me with help on finding
out about HTML. The many links that were provided to me by members were
very useful. Also TVM to GEOCITIES for hosting the page
Now hello to; Steaua
