User:Dave w74

Ah, the wonderful world of Wikipedia!

I'm pretty new at this game but have edited and written a handful of articles. Here are some topic areas I'm interested in or have written or edited articles about {or plan to}:


 * Yorkshire
 * Kingston Upon Hull
 * Swanland
 * Ilkley Moor
 * Humber Bridge
 * North Ferriby
 * Speech synthesis and speech recognition
 * Microsoft, particularly:
 * Speech Application Programming Interface - I'd like to add newer articles on other Speech Technology at Microsoft topics.
 * Windows Vista
 * Windows XP
 * .NET Framework
 * Windows Desktop Search
 * Seattle, Washington, and the Cascade Mountains
 * Linguistics including American and British English differences
 * Indie Music, particularly shoegazing British indie bands from the 80s and 90s:
 * Ride (band)
 * New FADS
 * House of Love
 * James (band)
 * Joy Division etc.
 * Creation Records - one day I'd like to expand this article.
 * Folk Rock
 * World War II
 * Battle of the Barents Sea
 * HMS Orwell (G98) - my Grandfather served on this ship
 * HMS Onslow (G17)
 * Escort aircraft carriers - I've been doing a bunch of tidying up on the articles related to this type of ship:
 * List of United States Navy escort aircraft carriers
 * List of escort aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
 * Nairana class escort carrier
 * HMS Nairana (D05)
 * HMS Vindex (D15)
 * HMS Pretoria Castle (F61), HMS Campania (D48), HMS Activity (D94), HMS Tracker (D24)
 * Sangamon class escort carrier

You can probably discover lots about who I am from the above list.