Rather than being yet another poster who joined, said hello and then made three posts before disappearing never to be seen again, I thought I would wait awhile to get to know the forum a little before I introduced myself properly.
My name is Paul, and I live in the UK in the charming county of West Sussex.
Once - long ago - I went to University to study electronic engineering and now, for my sins, my working life is a fair approximation of the IT Crowd and I get to spend most of my day telling people how to find the Start button in Windows.
Outside of work I have a number of interests, apart from reading, but the main one is helping to run a web site for the acclaimed comedy series Spaced.
(I also seem to spend quite a bit of time on various forum boards posting vitriolic tirades on why George Lucas should be flayed alive for having foisted the Star Wars prequels upon an unsuspecting public, and trying to work out if Russell T. Davis is the best or worst thing that has happened to Doctor Who, but I'll try to reign in my inner geek on here!).
I have also been playing World of Warcraft since May 2005, and have a level 70 Mage (that may impress some, puzzle others, but will probably bore or confuse most!).
Reading wise I'd like to think I have a fairly varied palate (although that's probably not the case!).
I started out as a teenager reading Star Trek novels and Terry Pratchett, but I have widened my reading since then and over the last decade have read books as varied as Catch-22, Cold Comfort Farm, High Fidelity, Flashman, Vernon God Little, all of Mike Gayle's novels (I still can't work out if they are male confessionals, or chick-lit) and more recently I've discovered Douglas Coupland and Haruki Murakami.
I'm not the fastest reader in the world, but I've been quite pleased this year because I have managed to average a book every two weeks (go me!).
So that's me, in part – hullo!