Glenn Baddeley - Interests

Here is some more information about my particular interests:

Caving: Activities of clubs and organisations (VSA, ASF, VSCT, FOBC); Cave exploration, documentation, surveying, photography, research (Helictite Journal); Collecting and selling cave books and magazines (such as National Geographic)
Electronics: Design and construction (solid state & valve) of electronic devices; Global Positioning System (GPS); Nikola Tesla (Tesla coils, biographical, ANTS); Test Instruments (design & construction, collecting old instruments and restoration); Collecting valves (thermionic tubes) and valve data books; Collecting old Electrical Engineering books (pre 1950); Digital logic (PC gadgets)
Audio and Hi-Fi: Designing, constructing and building: CD players, preamps, active filters, power amps, speaker cabinets & crossovers
Music: Listening to good music:; Electric & Acoustic guitar (mainly rock, I have some Guitar Top n Lists); Classical Piano (Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy); Classical Guitar (Julian Bream, John Williams); Synthetic Music (Kraftwerk, Tomita, Rick Wakeman, Herbie Hancock); and many other styles... (but NOT Opera or Country); Playing electric & acoustic guitar; Playing keyboards (a little)
Computers: B. Sc. Computer Science - Deakin University 1982; Systems Programmer at Telstra (1982 to 1997) and then IT Specialist in Middleware technologies (especially IBM WebSphere MQ) since 1997.; Personal Computers (Programming in Visual Basic, Various flavours of ANSI C); Mainframes (Assembler programming, Operating systems, Security, File Systems); Human Interfaces and user-goal directed Graphical User Interface (GUI) design; Security & Cryptology; Algorithms; Collecting old computer books (pre 1970)
Recreational Mathematics: Pi; Number theory & computation; Chaos & fractals
And in passing...: Astronomy; Philosophy of science, Artificial Intellgence; Playing Snooker and English Billiards (I'll play pool if challenged); Down-hill skiing; Home brewed beer & mixing (and drinking!) cocktails; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Internet Humour

Feel free to accost me on any of these subjects.