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I'm a doctor who graduated from University College London. I'm currently working in a busy DGH but I like to take time out to relax. My hobbies? Surf around my pages and you'll figure it out. Here is a collection of links that was originally a page where I just put my bookmarks. Feel free to surf around as an introduction to the wider world of the World Wide Web... you might find something you like.

Cars.

• My ICE Page; my page covering in car entertainment
• Honda Cars UK
• Are you a Chav?...then you're used to polishing t*rds

• Ren and Stimpy; probably THE FUNNIEST cartoon series around
   
  
• The Simpsons
   
  
• SouthPark and Kyle's mum

• Nespresso Coffee System; alternative to "traditonal" bean grinding/tamping.
• Magimix / Krups; the best coffee machines around?

• was the best combat flight sim (my favourite genre) ever made. I'm currently on X-Plane.
• Visit my PSP Page to find out about my (ex-) gadget.
• I now have a far better gaming device.....find out about it at my Wii_™ Page.
• I have also acquired a far better portable gaming device.....my DS_™lite.
• I've finally succumbed and bought a PS3 ...my first foray into Hi-Def gaming.

• Naim make my CD5i CD player.
• PrimaLuna make my Prologue 2 KT88 40W Valve Amplifier.
• Quad make my 12L Speakers, along with a BK Electronics XLS200 10" Peerless Active SubWoofer.
• Chord Company make my Chameleon Silver Plus Interconnects and my Carnival and Carnival Silver Plus Speaker Wire.
• Pro-Ject make my Xperience 2 Turntable and 9c Carbon-Fibre Tonearm, coupled to an Ortofon MC15 Super MkII (l.o.MC) Cartridge. This feeds into my battery powered Pickering PLZ Pre Pre-Amplifier which in turn feeds into my Graham Slee Gram Amp 2 Communicator Phono Stage Pre-Amplifier via homemade Interconnects.
• Technics made my ST-3500 AM/FM vintage Analogue Tuner.
• Musical Fidelity X-Cans hybrid triode valve Headphone Amplifier, connected via IXOS γ1002 Interconnects, feeding Sennheiser HD480-13 mkIIUK Headphones.
• Target make my TR50 Speaker Stands, Ikea make my Corras Equipment Rack and Isotek make my IsoPlug Mains Silencer.

My 2^nd System: Arcam CD72 CD player, QED Qunex 1 Intrcncts and an AVC/VAL ultralinear EL34 Valve Amplifier wired via ChordCo Carnival Spkr Wire to Tannoy M15 Speakers.

Literature. I mainly like Science Fiction and my best five (alphabetically) are:

• Isaac Asimov
• Arthur C Clarke
• Philip K Dick; who created masterpieces such as Bladerunner, A Scanner Darkly and The Man In The High Castle.
• Stephen Donaldson
• Frank Herbert; who created the series. N.B. the sequels/prequels by BH & KJA bear no resemblance to any actual material by Frank (it's doubtful he even wrote a book 7 outline).

Movies.

• My DVD & BR Page and my AV Page
• ; Alien and Aliens are both amazing films (esp. director's cuts)
• The Matrix; ditto Matrix & Animatrix
   
  
• ; STUNNING, does for fantasy what Star Wars IV-VI did for sci-fi
   
  
• ; what an amazing trilogy. The Force is with you...

• Asia Times
• The BBC
• CNN
• The Independent
• ITN
• The Guardian

Palm OS.

• Visit my Palm Page dedicated to PDA use.

Pakistan. You can travel to from:

• Pakistan Wikipaedia Entry; lots of info here.
• Wiki Pakistan; and here.

Science.

• Landmarks; this is a relatively old page of mine that lists some of my favourite inventions.
• You can try Lucid Dreaming at The Lucidity Institute.
• National Geographic.
• New Scientist; you could spend YEARS travelling to all the links in this site.
• Serendipity; encrypt your mind, wrap it around this, then try to decode it!

Sport. As well as keeping fit and playing badminton, I also like:

• Cricket; one of my fav sports, keep up to date with the latest scores from abroad.
• Talking about sports, where would we be without football... Chelsea FC.
• Find out about Kung Fu or visit a Shaolin Temple.

Website Design. Oh, I nearly forgot, if you want to make your own page try the:

• Barebones; the basic guide of HTML language, along with the official W3C site.
• Colours; this is my table of colours for font text, link text and background.
• FreeSite; loadsa free stuff to jazz up your pages, as well as free animated gifs for them.
• Characters; this is my table of odd characters (May not display correctly with Gecko based browsers).
• You can also get more professional looking photographic images for your page.
• MiniSigs; this is my tutorial on how to use Photoshop to create your own MiniSigs for forums.

Universally recognised Fonts are: Andale Mono, Arial, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Webdings.

More links will be added later if I find any good ones.