For no great reason, this is the page where I tell you a bit (but not very much really) about what I am and who I do. I work for the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an economic research 'unit based in London, UK. I've been there almost 3 years now and don't I know it. In my spare time I work on an ambient techno project and when more comes of this I'll put something up on site. I've also got a reasonably diverse and fetchingly oddball collection of interests, which you can read about here.
If you'd rather not, well then you should read on about some people you might like to [virtually] say hello to:
The Excursioneers
- John
Saunders, a.k.a. 'Juniper Sandhurst', a.k.a. 'The Hammer of Barnston, now works as a trainee actuarial consultant for Towers Perrin plc in, of all places, Newbury. He enjoys a number of foibles including Privateer II: The Darkening, side dishes of extra chillies and lilac trousers. Like myself, John has a web page
with Geocities, although he prefers
the rather more arty climate of
Paris to the hard rockers of
Sunset Strip. Juniper can be emailed if you're desperate.
- Mark Sutton
is currently frantically finishing his PhD (in fact he may be in the office now. After finishing he may be getting a job in Germany and making some techno, like myself. He has rather strong views on UCL accommodation and
graphics packages for
particle physicists. Sometimes he could be mistaken for a a stranger
from another planet. "Sutt" is also on email.
- Matt 'Spud' Rowson works for Unilever in Bedford. You'd
better watch yourself
mailing him as he has a death sentence in some twelve star
systems. Matt supports
Watford, but to see a real football club homepage, click here. He also
deserves a mention for introducing me to what can only be described as
"one
of the great hard rock records of the seventies" ('Rolling
Stone Record Guide', 1979)
-
Oliver Pooley has put together a neat little package for you at Balliol College, Oxford, where he's about to do a DPhil (that's a PhD under another name) after having scored the highest mark in his year on the BPhil (that's an MPhil under another name). At almost exactly the same time, 'Tots' (that's his sister Laura under another name) managed the highest first in her year in her Classics and English B.A.(that's a B.A. but after 4 years it becomes an M.A. Weird, huh?) 'Foley' as we often call the man Olly is a great fan of
David Bowie amongst other things. He enjoys the variety of milk-floats and bourbon whisky to be found at English seaside resorts such as Greatstone-on-sea (Kent) and Shaldon (Devon). He'll destroy your papier-mache mask if he thinks it's malevolent.
- Ben Dalby has a bizarre web site at the tax evasion (sorry, avoidance) company
Mantis. He spends a lot of time in those cosy tax havens - the Isle
of man, Jersey etc. - which our economy is currently haemorrhaging
billions of pounds of funds in tax receipts to. Ben was in that great late-90s hard rock act Regular Size Monsters who were a force to be reckoned with until the drummer left.
- Martin Rist does dirty deeds dirt cheap (well, actually pretty expensively) for a variety of dubious clients as a freelance computer systems engineer. He enjoys explaining that the incident during his college years where he fell asleep on a Circle Line train in London was NOT the same occasion as the incident where he ate at Marble Arch McDonalds, "because Marble Arch isn't on the Circle Line".
- Jeremy Lowes may not have discovered the Internet yet, but when he does, some of you are going to know about it.
