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 I am a retired Systems Engineer.
-I have an honours degree (BSc) in [[https://www.theorsociety.com/about-or/|Operational Research]] & Computing and have spent most of my working life in IT.
+Graduated with an honours degree (BSc) in [[https://www.theorsociety.com/about-or/|Operational Research]] & Computing, I spent most of my working life in IT (financial sector and later with an ISP).
-I live in Bangkok with my lovely wife, a 5 year-old nephew, and an adopted black Soi cat.
+Currently live in Bangkok with my lovely wife, a 5 year-old nephew, and an adopted black Soi cat.
-My interests:-
+I like **backgammon**, and I like flying the [[https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/t-67-trainer/?cf-view=|Slingsby T67M]]\\
+I like the smell of **watercolour painting** \\
+But what I like more than all of these\\
+Is to be on **FreeBSD**.
-  * Archery (mostly the English longbow these days)
+Oh - I like **slide rules** too - but it didn’t fit the tune “On Horseback” by Mike Oldfield.
-  * Backgammon / [[https://royalur.net/rules|The Royal Game of Ur]]
-  * Cosmology (Astrophysics, maths, physics)
-  * Flying (particularly aerobatics - I am a fully qualified pilot (PPL))
-  * IT (still like to "keep my hand in")
-  * Slide rules (I use one almost daily)
-  * Watercolour painting
-I am currently into algorithmic trading.
+Systems:-
-I use the following systems:-
+  * Laptop - [[https://www.freebsd.org/|FreeBSD]] + [[https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html|EMWM]] (Enhanced Motif Windows Manager) - main **workhorse**, and trusty machine!{{https://wiki.bsd.cafe/lib/plugins/ckgedit/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/heart.png?nolink&22x22|heart}}=)
-  * Laptop - [[https://www.freebsd.org/|FreeBSD]] + [[https://i3wm.org/|i3]]
   * Desktops - [[https://www.freebsd.org/|FreeBSD]] + [[https://i3wm.org/|i3]]
   * Home server - [[https://www.freebsd.org/|FreeBSD]] + [[https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve|Bhyve]] for VMs
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 **Special thanks**  to the [[https://wiki.bsd.cafe|bsd.cafe]] team in allowing me here.
-**Finally**, I would like to close by **thanking my lovely wife**. Who, despite the years, still "puts-up" with me, and, without whom, I would be **totally lost**!
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+Thank you to **my lovely wife**. Who, despite the years, still "puts-up" with me, and, without whom, I would be **totally lost**!