Paul

Age: 24
Sex: Male
Occupation: Student
Member since: Feb 2006
Forum posts: 1
Login status: Offline

About me

I'm a stereotypical nerd, although I do like History more than comic books or computers. I'm an 19 year old who likes to moan and the Opera blog facilitates this most adequately. I'm English and painfully middle class and and very cynical and sarcastic. Yup, fairly stereotypical nerd.

My work

I'm a student so that pretty much a contradiction in terms. I do research history but thats more fun than actual work. I have part time work on holidays if you must know but as of yet I don't do any proper work and am happily a cancer upon society.

Fast facts

At the movies I like to see:Good plot and Good acting
Last movie seen:Walk the Line (happily)
Music I listen to:Indy mainly with a strong side of Parodies.
Best album right now:Ok Computer by Radiohead
Favorite author:Iain M Banks / Terry Pratchett
Last book read:Hereticus by Dan Abnett
Best game right now:Halflife 2 with SMOD
Favorite sports team:Ha Ha Ha
I'm passionate about:History, Politics and Doing whats right and Something Awful
I wish I could:See space before I die.
Favorite travel destination:Its not the Destination but the Journey that matters
On my vacation I..:Stay inside too much
If I won 1 million dollars, I would:Invest it and save it, it would be too easy to sqaunder otherwise
If I were a super hero I would:Look better in Spandex than I do now hopefully
Food I like:Ketchup Sandwiches
I don't like:Organised Religion, Binge Drinking and Hippies.
Software I use:How do I internet?
Hardware I use:How do I computer?

Why I choose the Opera browser

As IE slowly became more and more of a joke and as the Anarchic forces of toolbars, spywares and clutter slowly but surely eliminated the area of IE that actually displayed the internet I felt a change was necessary. Now my tech savvy friends reccomended Firefox but I find the idea of a browser where I have to add in all the features I want before it becomes useful pretty useless. Opera on the other hand contains everything I need and lots of handy features that IE doesn't. The one click browsing, tabbed browsing and saved sessions are especially awesome and have made net use far easier than it ever was before. Plus now the full version is free it is unarguably superior to IE and (in my opinion) Firefox too.