I suppose this has needed updating for a bit, so here we go again.

Hi, I'm Awix and I'm from the UK. I live in Oxford, where most of the time I get paid far too much for having silly conversations with foreigners.

I have been hanging around h2g2 since just after the dawn of time - or so it often feels - but to be perfectly honest for most of this time all I've done is contribute film reviews and other bits of ridiculousness to the h2g2 Post, highlights of which you can read here (along with the lowlights, the average-lights, and the embarrassing-disaster-lights). If you just want to read the film reviews (and why wouldn't you?) they are helpfully indexed in The Vault of Lies.

My online presence these days also includes some poetry and short stories posted here plus frequent witterings here on my blog - mainly this is just more film reviews, to be perfectly honest, though there's some stuff about wargaming and (of course) Doctor Who.

Some of my other online writing you can find here, although I've hardly contributed anything to that site in well over five years (and you can't search by author any more, so it's a bit hit and miss looking for stuff).

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	Welcome to this Researcher's Journal. If you'd like to comment on anything they have written here, just click the relevant 'Discuss this Entry' button. ...and exhale. (Oct 17, 2011) Well, I've missed being able to pop into Hootoo for the last fortnight more than I would have expected. But what a relief to be able to return to the site and find it - in the best possible way - almost indistinguishable from how it always used to be. Certainly both Hootoo and myself are in happier places than seemed possible back at the beginning of the year. (Does this mean I wasted all those hours spent laboriously transferring the 24LAS archive onto my blog, a small tetchy internal voice enquires. Shush, voice.) And so I find myself wondering, not for the first time - as someone with a fairly demanding job and an ongoing commitment to a high-intensity diploma course, what's the best way I can make a contribution to the success of the site, beyond the traditional comedy film reviews? There's a poser and no mistake. All advice gratefully received... Click here to discuss this (6 replies, Latest reply: Oct 19, 2011) The net and the 'net (Jul 6, 2011) There is no particular reason for me to write a journal entry tonight. And, indeed, far fewer reasons than on many other nights since the last time I wrote one. And so this seems like the perfect time to write one anyway. Sometimes I think that life is like a net and we all get slightly too impressed with all the string and particularly the nets, which obscures the fact that nets - like the universe, and (we are led to believe) everything in it - are composed of literally almost nothing. And so here is a journal entry celebrating and recording nothing. I suspect that this justification in itself may appear as an attempt at significance. You see how nothing can be so easily spoiled? Nature abhors a vacuum. Click here to discuss this (5 replies, Latest reply: Jul 6, 2011) A question (Oct 12, 2009) Anyone actually reading this? A simple 'yes' will do as an answer. Cheers. (It's mainly simple curiosity, I promise.) Click here to discuss this (6 replies, Latest reply: Jan 12, 2012) Encouraging signs (Apr 5, 2008) Hello void! Evidence, I think, that my integration into normal society proceeds apace: the other night I was discussing the Communist/Fascist dichotomy with my students, and, for obvious reasons, drew the parallel with Star Trek vs Star Wars. One of my students said she didn't know which was which. 'Is Star Wars the one with Captain Spock?' she asked. Now, I said 'No, he's in Star Trek' rather than 'No, he's in Star Trek, and in any case he was nearly always referred to as Mr Spock even after his promotion to Captain (which occurred between the first and second films).' A very positive development I think... Click here to discuss this (4 replies, Latest reply: May 3, 2008) Hello (May 2, 2007) I am alarmed to see it's been nearly a year since my last journal entry. Well, slightly surprised. Well, not even that. Anyway, for this reason, and also because it's just possible someone occasionally pops in who I know from the Old Days wondering what I'm up to, and because this is listed as my homepage on at least one other website >ahem< F*c*B**k >cough<, here's a bit of an update. Currently in Chiba, Japan, teaching English (fairly badly) and trying to get to know the country (even worse). Should be coming back to the UK briefly at the end of the year then (fingers crossed) looking for another teaching job in Europe or around the Med. I really don't do very much on h2g2 any more, which I occasionally feel bad about, but writing Post articles is awkward for technical reasons plus the film release schedules are so wacky over here... I try to keep up with any conversations aimed at me, if that's any consolation. Probably not. Never mind. Click here to discuss this (1 reply, Latest reply: May 6, 2007) Click here to see more Journal Entries		From h2g2 Welcome aboard (Posted: Last Week) (Last reply: 2 Days Ago) From h2g2 Sunday 28th April - Announcing: Happy 14th Birthday h2g2! (No Posting) (Latest post: 4 Days Ago) From h2g2 Thanks for the recommendation! (Posted: 5 Days Ago) (No replies) From h2g2 Thursday 4th April - Announcing: h2g2 is one of 100 websites Capturing the digital universe (No Posting) (Latest post: Last Week) From h2g2 Thanks for fixing the H2G2 icon! (No Posting) (Latest post: Last Week) From h2g2 Friday 12th April - Announcing: Birthday Party Preparations (No Posting) (Latest post: 3 Weeks Ago) From h2g2 Peer Review: A87758509 - Ukulele Basics (Posted: Jan 21, 2013) (Last reply: Apr 5, 2013) From h2g2 There are so few films about snooker (Posted: Apr 1, 2013) (Last reply: Apr 1, 2013) From h2g2 Finally a movie 'd really enjoy seeing. (Posted: Mar 24, 2013) (Last reply: Mar 30, 2013) From h2g2 Wednesday 13 March - Announcing an Invitation to share your Fruit, Vegetable and Winter images (No Posting) (Latest post: Mar 23, 2013) Click here to see more Conversations

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	These are all the Guide Entries this Researcher has created. If you'd like to read them, click on the link, and if you want to talk about them, use the 'Discuss this Entry' button when you get there. From h2g2: A87795175  24 Lies a Second: Hat Trek (5 Days Ago) From h2g2: A87794211  24 Lies a Second: Alternative Ulster (Last Week) From h2g2: A87792871  24 Lies a Second: Cheap Tricks and Cheesy One-Liners (2 Weeks Ago) From h2g2: A87791764  24 Lies a Second: The One and Only (3 Weeks Ago) From h2g2: A87791098  24 Lies a Second: Persistence of Memory (5 Weeks Ago) From h2g2: A87790693  24 Lies a Second: Sex and Violins (Apr 7, 2013) From h2g2: A87790251  24 Lies a Second: Hip, No Therapy (Apr 1, 2013) From h2g2: A87789460  24 Lies A Second: Cue and A (Mar 25, 2013) From h2g2: A87788704  24 Lies a Second: Electric Friends (Mar 17, 2013) From h2g2: A87787642  24 Lies a Second: The Statham of Limitations (Mar 10, 2013) Click here to see more Guide Entries		These are all the Edited Entries to which this Researcher has contributed. They obviously read the Writing Guidelines and submitted their Guide Entries to Peer Review: why don't you too? From h2g2: A13200058  Doctor Who Enemies: Cybermen (Aug 21, 2006) From h2g2: A330896  Ray Harryhausen - Stop-motion Animator (Jul 14, 2000) From h2g2: A311491  Rex the Runt (Jun 19, 2000) Click here to see more Edited Entries

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