Look, it's a post with a lame disclaimer tagged on the end. Well, since only people who know me will probably read this, the chances are they already know at least one of these things. Well, never mind!

I'm a geek. That's right, I know far, far too much about computers. In fact I could probably run a linux network for most purposes with no problem at all. And I can build and take apart computers. In fact, although maintaining this blog is fairly easy, there are several things that are utterly unnecessary that I have added just because I'm geeky. There are two reasons for this: firstly, I went through a geeky phase when I was about thirteen, and I learn quickly; secondly, see number 2!
I love building things and finding out how they work. Whether it's learning how to write the code for my own website, building Ikea furniture or taking apart and reassembling (obviously with improvements) an old bicycle, I love getting my hands dirty, both literally and metaphorically. I don't know whether it's a man thing (I've heard people say that it is), or whether it's just me being nosey to the point that i even have to know the business of inanimate objects, but it turns out I'm quite good at it. One of the few things that I really can't fix is anything programmed by Microsoft (i.e Windows). Some things just don't work!
I hate losing touch with people. I try to keep in contact with almost everyone I meet. Even if I only send the occasional email, or go out for lunch once a year, it means a lot to me that I don't forget people. It's not so much the other way round, I can accept that other people forget about me, just not that I might forget someone, and thus offend or lose a friend. I've tried to keep in touch with people I met at Oxford interviews, on holiday, or just out and about, and it only works for a fraction of the number that I meet, but for me that makes it worth it.
Most of the Americans I've ever met were wonderfully welcoming and interesting people. You probably can't tell that from my humourless whingeing, but my problem isn't with the american people, but their government. The USA is a fantastic cultural melting pot full of amazing, erudite, intelligent people, run by a body of neo-conservative christians chaired by George Bush. Need I say more? On a side note, I also don't believe that Bush is stupid; you can't get to that position without being a shrewd political mind. That just means that he's devious and deceitful instead. Much worse.
In spite of all my travel, my favourite place in the world is still the Lake District. I've seen the Alps and the Pyrenees, I've walked from over 2000m into the mediterranean sea, and none of it compares to that magical, majestic Englishness that is Cumbria. Compared to almost anywhere else in the world, they're only hills, but there's nothing I love more than getting lost in the Western Fells. I've always said that I'd love to live in the Lakes, and I still intend to.

So there you go. If you think you know too many of them, leave a comment and I'll try to think of a few more relatively light secrets that I don't mind telling the world.