User:Jamesgibbon
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James Gibbon is a 46 year old British resident of Derby, England.
He spends far too much time in front of a PC. He is Microsoft-averse, however, and uses an Open Source operating system.
He is the originator and administrator of a forum for discussing issues relating to religion, philosophy and politics, Open 2 Question, which he installed and maintains on his own webserver. He maintains a blog at jamesgibbon.com.
He has somehow persuaded someone to marry him, on August 1st 2007.
The colour scheme of his Wikipedia signature (jamesgibbon) is subject to change.
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James understands that 'God' is a human invention, and is therefore a strong atheist. He has always voted for a centre-right party, yet holds views which might be characterised as 'liberal' on geopolitical matters, in particular in relation to certain recent events arising from the present foreign policy of the United States and British governments, bodies whose current incarnations he holds in low contempt.
Those who know him sometimes describe him as self-absorbed and vain. He acknowledges these traits, but feels that he fully deserves the attention he receives from himself.
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He holds an honours degree in Computer Science from an English university, and has managed the front office trading systems for a Japanese Bank in the City of London. He subsequently joined an American firm as a Unix specialist, something he regrets, since his work there was exploited to further the careers of colleagues of conspicuously lower professional stature, at the expense of his own.
James has ten years' experience in Unix systems management. He currently works for a web-hosting company near Nottingham, England.
[edit] Geographical Biography
James was born in Hartlepool, England on July 9, 1960 (and is therefore a Monkey Hanger).
He lived there until August 1989, when he left to live in Leicester, while working in Derby.
He moved to Derby in December the following year, to be closer to his place of work, initially lodging with a colleague for several months before eventually buying a house there, Slim Towers, in 1991.
He moved to Northampton in 1994, from where he commuted to London. However, he rented a flat in SE London a year later, in August 1995, and lived there for the following seven years, before returning to Derby rather reluctantly in February 2002, to move back into Slim Towers.
[edit] Areas Of Expertise And Interest
- Information Technology
- Scotch whisky
- Television
- Politics
- London
- Music
- The Electric Guitar
- The Wristwatch
- Proper and Effective Use of the English Language
- Science Fiction
- The James Bond films and novels
[edit] Recent Wikipedia Activity
Not much. I've mostly just tidied up or made brief additions to random articles I've come across while wiki-surfing. I did add a couple of photos to Hartlepool railway station however.
Wrote a new article, XPD.
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