So what if I haven't blogged in several million years (in internet time) on dtoid!? Give a brother a break.

1. I once had to stop listening to Dark Side of The Moon because it overwhelmed me.
Music has always been very influential in my life. I can't tell you who all the Beatles are and I have no idea what's popular at the moment, but at the few key parts in my life music has often been there. When I broke up with my first long term girlfriend (3 years), I remember sitting alone in a crap student halls in the middle of the night. It was summer, I had no friends near and I felt low. I was about to move house so everything was boxed up. The only things unpacked were a record deck, headphones, a UV light and a few records. Never before has Black Sabbath's Paranoid album had that much of an impact. Later that summer I got myself very very drunk and lay on my floor. I turned all the lights out and listened to Dark Side of the Moon (vinyl). I got myself so engrossed in the track, when the clocks kick in at the start of Time I ripped my headphones off and nearly had a panic attack.

2. Continuing the music theme, I once wrote and produced an entire album. Then, two or three years later, remixed it myself. It was all started by an awesome tune called “Where are the chickens?” which was a parody track made for music class. I used the full power of my grade 1 piano class and the vocals of a good friend (who later went on to form a kick-ass punk/ska band) Johnny. Most tracks were electronic, repetitive, had guitars and were either fucking depressing as shit, or just shit.

3.I took drama in school and travelled to Washington DC twice as a teenager to perform Shakespeare. Not much to really elaborate here.

4.I own a Sinclair C5 and used to stunt-drive it down my garden on 2 wheels. It got retired to a shed after a collision with a wall. It was low speed, and my friend was in it at the time, but it screwed the chassis.

5.A fact only known to Podcastle listeners, but when I first met (and totally hit on) Atheistium I was roughly 3 or 4 times the legal dosage of paracetamol (I should have gone to A&E) and had been sick around an hour previously during my first day at work. That day I was taken for lunch and now can't eat Niocci pasta. It was my first day working at Symbian in London and Lauren sent me a text whilst I was sat on my train going home. At the time I felt completely out of it and thought that it would be a great idea. The following day I was comatose in bed, only leaving to vomit.

6.I made and still run a small online web game called Wardrox. It's where my internet handle comes from. It was once hacked by a Dutch guy accidentally.

7.I have never finished a proper RPG.

8.Both my parents are teachers and both have succeed in becoming heads of their respective departments. My Dad is head of IT and my Mum is head of Special Needs. They are both awesome and have given me a wide range of life skills that I think make me both very practical, and also very nice (or at least thoughtful of others).

9.I left mySpace and joined Facebook not because mySpace is owned by Fox, but because on mySpace it's obvious if nobody gives a shit about you.

10. I run Negative Gamer and, inspired by people such as Niero, genuinely hope and believe I have the skill, passion, ability and drive to make it as a blogger (well, that's the short version anyway). In my head, I will also become a great games designer and will eventually rule the videogaming world.