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[edit] Introduction
My name is Sid Roberts and I live in Leeds, England. I was born March 31, 1992 so that may make me quite young depending on how old you are. I've been a contributer to Wikipedia since January 2007 although only until May 2008 did I start regularly contributing.
I grew up in Leeds and went to Horsforth School - something similar to spending 7 years going through a big long commercial.
[edit] My main interests
[edit] Computers
I'll be straight out with it - I'm a self-admitted computer nerd and could spend days at a time in Windows XP or Ubuntu developing websites or listening to music - usually drum and bass.
I took to computers at a very young age. I found them to be fascinating and started to teach myself. A few years later and I was considered to be the technical genius at my school, which has in turn given me chance to teach many IT lessons and help others with their work. With no real training, I pride myself on my self-taught abilities.
Web design came to my imagination when I was probably about 9 or 10 years old and I found it fascinating that I could create things on a global medium. With no real experience, I played around on Dreamweaver 2 and I managed to create sites that I now know would have made most people cringe at the colours and typography I'd chosen (a blue background with yellow Times New Roman text...). I really only properly grasped it at around 13 years old when I started dabbling in PHP and began seriously thinking about how people used the web. This was around the time that I first heard about web standards and began writing pages that conformed to these rules. And being a perfectionist, my site, for example, conforms to pretty much any set of guidelines ever devised.
Development and code was always my forte and not design work. To me, code either worked or it didn't, allowing me to look at it and debug the mischievous script. Design was full of ifs and maybes and I could never be too sure if it was good or not. And being a perfectionist, I can’t face something that’s not completely right.
I always liked to be different and often listened to obscure genres. Drum and bass took a big part of this musical selection because it just sounded so good to me.
Although from a musically inclined family, I never really got into music production or creation.
[edit] School
Don’t get me started on school - I hated it. Everything I learnt there I'm not going to use again and anything I didn't learn there is already is full use. Added to that, my high school loved to big itself up but in such a big way that assemblies every week would be filled with claims that we were one of the best in the country, the best in the city and we even had many assemblies where the key theme was that we were the "best". Alas, it's not true, I assure you. I digress but if you ever realise that you've wasted 11 years of your life, then you'll know why. In the very last assembly, we were asked if we'd done anything that the school could claim credits on...
Aside from all that, I was entered for an early-entry French GCSE and was considered the best in my class. I also helped teach my IT classes and often helped out with "technical stuff".
[edit] Languages
I'm interested in languages (most importantly, is there need for more than one?) and I'm learning Norwegian, Swedish, Japanese and Irish simultaneously which, yes I know, contradicts my beliefs.
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