OK then, you asked for it - here's all about me.

In fact, there are two people in my head, there's boring old Andrew, and Doctor Sinister himself.  :-) 

Let's do Andrew first:

I'm 34, live in Basingstoke, but I've moved around the country a bit.  I'm married with two young children.  My job is incredibly boring, so we won't talk about that, but suffice it to say I've never served in the military - I'm just fascinated with it.  :-)

Interests?  Wow - where do I start?  I actually have far too many interests to list here, and more than can possibly be good for my wallet.  Mainly however I'm a lifelong sci-fi fan, in particular a British series called Doctor Who which started in 1963 and which is running even now.  I'm also a bit of a "fanboy" for military history and technology - by no means an expert, but I dabble.  Hence, military sci-fi is a real bonus when you find a good series to follow like this one.  I also write my own stories, but they are a bit rubbish, frankly.  I started working on a novel and got half-way through the first draft before real life intervened and I met my wife.  That was 6 years ago!

Oh, I also like to play with LEGO - in fact I have an entire town in my garage that I created.

There's loads more, but I don't want to bore you all.  :-)

I have a second "job" (which I love) as the Military History editor for the Armchair General (magazine) website - I've written over 50 articles for that website and as I mentioned before, I'm, one of the Admin' staff on their forums.  In case anyone is interested, here's a link to my online profile on the site - follow the articles link to see all the pices I've written - there are also loads of pictures of me with various bits of military equipment.  :-)

I dabble in photography (mainly for the articles I write) and generally find that there aren't enough hours in the day to cover everything I like to do.

As for "Doctor Sinister" - he's simply a slightly incompetent and insane evil supervillain who wants to rule the world.  I use that name as my handle everywhere, and he even has a regular column on the ACG website that I write every month.  Doctor Sinister's website is very much intended to be tongue-in-cheek.

To Dan - I can't really comment on how things have changed since 1960 I'm afraid, although things have changed since I've been around.  The Royal Family seems to have lost a lot of respect these days and there are lots of Z-list "celebrities" flaunting themselves on the TV which is a bit tiresome.  :-)  I guess the main thing that's different is that we are dictated to by Brussels these days as part of the EU, which a lot of people feel rather helpless about.  On the whole though, it's not a bad place to live, there are everyday frustrations of course, but who doesn't have those?  I often threaten to emigrate, but I think I'm too eccentric at times to be anything other than English through and through.

BTW, I am dead impressed that the authors of this fine series interact with their fans so much on this site - I really think that's great.

Hope this post didn't go on too long.  :-)

Dr. S.