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I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For most of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK.



In 2011 I received the Enigma Award for lifetime contribution to information security journalism at the annual IT Security Journalism Awards ceremony in the UK.



I was the holder of the 'Information Security Journalist of the Year' title for 2010. I was also lucky enough to win the Information Security Journalist of the Year award in 2006 and 2008. Other awards include Best Generic Security Feature (2010) and Best Information Security News Story (2008) for a DaniWeb piece about TomTom satnav Trojans, Best IT Security Feature (2008) and (2007), as well as Technology Journalist of the Year back in 1996.



My last book 'Being Virtual' was published by Wiley, in conjunction with the Science Museum in London, during May 2008. I should probably write another one soon, but with more than 20 published titles under my belt I am less motivated than I used to be.



You can catch up with my writings here on DaniWeb and also at The Happy Geek
Computer Specs and OS Flavor
Core i3 lappy running 64-bit Windows 7, plus an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2 and that's pretty much it for my day to day working kit. Everything is in the cloud, you see...

Erm, does a Kindle 3 count?
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Animal rights
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Paganism
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