I've always lived in the UK mostly in various parts of southern England; my own accent is a fairly generic educated English one. I'm not a professional in matters of langauge, in fact I'm a scientist. I'm interested in English from the point of view of academic writing/speaking, also word puzzles, etymology, and the broader relationship of English to other languages.

Any code of mine that I publish anywhere on stackexchange.com I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the CC0. This also applies to documentation/instructions etc.

Opinions I post are mine and mine only unless clearly stated.

Attribution (especially if I say anything clever) is appreciated where reasonable - but specifically not demanded.