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Really Brief Biography

I don't know why I'm writing this, 'cos no one cares, but it's my web page, I pay for it, so I can write what I want.
I was born in Guildford, Surrey, in 1968, which would make me a poncy Southerner if I hadn't left pretty early on.  I spent my formative years in Uttoxeter.  Then I went to Newcastle University, and did a degree in Psychology, graduating in 1990.  I did a bit of teaching in further education, and then I started working at Derby University, in 1992.    I worked there as a research assistant and then a lecturer in the psychology department, and did a PhD in health psychology, looking at statistical models of psychological aspects of psoriasis.  Then  in 2001 I moved to York University, in the Department of Health Sciences, where they called me a lecturer in biostatistics ("Hey kids!  We know statistics is hard and boring, that's why we do biostatistics, which is interesting and exciting!" .  It didn't convince them either.)
Then in 2006 (which is when I'm writing this) I moved to Santa Monica to work for the RAND Corporation.   It's not really a corporation in the sense of a corporation that we'd think of, it stands for Research And Development.  (No, I don't know where the N comes from, maybe it sounds better than RAD Corporation).
In other news, I got married in 2000 to Susanne Hempel, and have twin boys, called Alexander and Daniel, who were born in 2002.  

Publications

I'm an academic.  All we really care about is publications.

Pictures

This is a selection of pictures from my Flickr photostream.  I've just learned how to do it, and it's quite cool.  There's not many of me, because I tend to take the photos.
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What I Think About Google Ads

You will have noticed that there are Google ads on these pages.  Now a little while ago, you could have said that adverts were the bane of the internet, and I'd have agreed.  But now I've got adverts on my pages.  I've debated with the odd person about this, some of whom say that they won't link to a page with adverts on it. But I disagree, for a couple of reasons:
  • Google ads take power away from big people, and give it to small people.  Anyone can have a google advert, they are really cheap - if you don't want to pay more than 10c a day, that's all you  need to pay.
  • Google are sensible about their adverts - they don't allow things that would distract you from the page, too much.  You can't have a Google ad in capitals, because capitals take longer to read.
  • You're not allowed to say, well, I can't say it.  But you're not allowed to say "Do the thing you do with the mouse button while the pointer is on top of an ad" on the page.  
  • They make me money.  Every time someone chooses to read an advert, and do the thing that I'm not allowed to say, I get a trivially small amount of cash.  Seriously small.  These pages cost me 2 of your British pounds, and 50 pence a month to have.  And sometimes the ads almost earn that.