{"id":598,"date":"2007-07-16T00:08:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T23:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2007-07-16T00:08:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T23:08:22","slug":"8-things-about-methat-you-dont-know-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"8 things about me…that you don’t know already…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former MVP<\/a>, now Microsoft DPE, and good buddy, Dan Moth has essentially blog-tagged<\/a> me – I need to think up eight random things about me (that you don’t already know). Another good buddy, Gary<\/a>, got me too. So here are 8 things about me. I hope these are new to you.<\/p>\n

1. Like Dan, I too am a Metallica<\/a> fan. But, you already knew<\/a> this. But it’s unlikely that you’ll know I’m also a long-standing Magnum<\/a> fan.<\/p>\n

2. Like Dan, I too was tempted to kill off <\/strong>this almost viral-like meme\/tagging thing. It’s difficult thinking up random things that folks don’t know about me. Like this one: I believe in a world where money isn’t required. It’s unlikely to happen in my lifetime, or even my son’s lifetime, but I’m sure it will happen. Let’s face it, a lot of things in Star Trek<\/a> become reality sooner or later.<\/p>\n

3. I crave tidiness<\/strong>, but I am, at the moment, one of the most untidy people I know. I believe this is due to the fact that I tidy in small pockets of time – I really should “take a week” and do it all in one go.<\/p>\n

4. Related to 3 above, I hoard things<\/strong>. “That’ll come in useful one day”. The situation has improved recently: I cull my computer-related magazines very frequently now, perhaps because we have the facilities to recycle more and more – for example, we have a regular trash container, two paper\/cardboard recycle containers and as of yesterday, we have containers for plastics and cans\/glass. <\/p>\n

5. Despite 1 above, I do like<\/strong> late-80s, early-90s dance, electronica, old-skool and trance music. I don’t know why. It’s good to work and drive to. Many years ago, I was driving to work, the tunes were “up there”, the speakers were replicating the bass to perfection (thanks to a proper acoustic MDF parcel shelf<\/a>, a Kenwood amp<\/a> and a pair of 6×9 JBL speakers<\/a>), the sun was shining, it was a clear day…I nearly didn’t go to work, wanting only to continue enjoying the drive! There was a Sony<\/a> headunit and an autochanger cunningly installed in the glovebox.<\/p>\n

6. Despite 5 above, I have a cassette unit<\/strong> in my current car! On days when I don’t take the train, I spend up to 2 hours per [working] day in my car and find myself listening to the likes of Chris Moyles<\/a> and Scott Mills<\/a> on BBC Radio 1<\/a>. Whatever you may think of those shows (and BBC Radio 1 in general), I like them and will continue to listen to BBC Radio 1 until I feel that I’m old enough to progress to BBC Radio 2 or 4 (I believe this is the natural progression from folks who are 15 years my senior). Radio’s a funny beast. I find myself listening to it whilst travelling, either in the car or whenever I’m on a train that doesn’t have an overly protective cocoon that blocks basic forms of radio transmission (Virgin please note). By virtue of this listening habit, I have a listening pattern: I tend to listen to Chris Moyles, Scott Mills, Jo Whiley<\/a>, Vernon Kay<\/a> and Sara Cox<\/a>. Rarely do I find myself the other shows, because of the time I travel. I rarely find the peace and quiet required to turn the radio on at home, which is a shame because there are plenty of other great shows on BBC Radio 1. If you don’t believe me, go listen<\/a> for yourself.<\/p>\n

7. Despite 1 and 5 above, I have a reasonable collection <\/strong>of classical music and do listen to Classic FM<\/a> – it’s tuned in to speed button number 2 on the car stereo. As you might imagine, BBC Radio 1 is tuned in to speed button number 1!<\/p>\n

8. I would like to emigrate and work [from] abroad<\/strong>. Most of what I [really want to] do can be done from anywhere thanks to the power of the Internet. This would negate commuting and the downtime of having to fit in with a 9 to 5 working day. I’m a creative type, I can’t turn creativity on such that it’s there between certain hours. It takes many hours to for people like me to reach a state where creativity is found…for me, that happens between 0000 and 0400 – at which point I’m tired because I have to get up at 0630 for the 9 to 5 shuffle. But, unless I really push myself, it’s unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n

Who’s next? Must I really propagate this thing? I guess so, otherwise some nasty stuff will happen to me…at least that’s what Dan told me when he dropped me an e-mail reminding me my obligation to write something. So here goes:<\/p>\n

Dave<\/a>
\nAlan<\/a>
\nLiam<\/a>
\nSimon<\/a>
\nSimon\/Jonathan<\/a>
\nChris<\/a>
\nRichard<\/a>
\nVinzenz<\/a><\/p>\n

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Former MVP, now Microsoft DPE, and good buddy, Dan Moth has essentially blog-tagged me – I need to think up eight random things about me (that you don’t already know). Another good buddy, Gary, got me too. So here are 8 things about me. I hope these are new to you. 1. Like Dan, I … Continue reading 8 things about me…that you don’t know already…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}