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I have been tagged by Rob Miles, who is one of my lecturers at The University of Hull. I, like Rob have never been tagged before so I am going to post five things you didn't know about me (Well most of you anyway). Unlike Rob, I am something of a motormouth so I have probably told you these facts anyway but, for those of you who are not in the know, here goes.

1) I've had a couple of appearances in the newspaper. Once, when I was eight, some violinists came to our school and did a concert for Primary 1 and 2, of which I was in Primary 2 at the time. At the end they asked if anyone wanted a go, and me being the loud one and the one to be noticed (nothing changes, does it?) I volunteered, and before I knew where I was, I ended up being photographed for the Telegraph & Argus, which is the local paper back in Bradford.

2) I pick up accents really easily. Having had a girlfriend from Withernsea last year and coming to Hull this year, parts of my speech sound Hull. I only started to talk "Hullglish" in July/August. Up to that I had a West Yorkshire accent.

3) I went to Temple Bank School for the Visually Impaired from being aged three and three quarters until the Secondary department's closure in July 2002, when I was aged fourteen and a half. While there, I managed to be able to gain a reputation of wrecking any computer or laptop in sight. Ooops!! When Temple Bank closed and amalgamated with Hanson School, I realised that I didn't have idea about how to behave around others because I had had no friends at home and I had been cocooned in a specialist school environment and as a result, others found me 'wierd'.

4) It's no secret that I have Asperger Syndrome (it says so on my home page) but I wasn't diagnosed by a nurse until I was sixteen and a half. I was here doing stuff that I didn't understand and I didn't know why.

5) I can play the musical keyboard. I started learning when I was seven and even though I don't own a keyboard now, when I see one, I still like to play. I also can't read a note of music, so I play by ear. On Christmas Day I was playing with my three-year old niece's keyboard and found that I could play 'Brown Boxes' by The Spinto Band, or at least the beginning of it.

Now I have to tag some people, so I am going to tag Lauren and KK Unfortunately I do not know of anyone in the computing sector who has a blog, apart from, Rob.

Unfortunately these names at the moment are not hyperlinks. I am going to ask permission from the people before I convert them to hyperlinks