User:Lyndonnixon

In real life, known as Lyndon J B Nixon.

Until I feel important enough to create my personal article in the main Wikipedia, this will serve as an interlinked source of data and my own Wikipedia experiment.

Born in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland on 10 June 1976. Grew up in Comber, Dundonald, then moved to Colnbrook, England close to London Heathrow airport, and then to Onchan on the Isle of Man.

Studied at Queen's University Belfast from 1993, graduating with a BA (1996) and then a MSc (1997).

After a few years working for the university computer centre, I moved to Berlin, Germany in October 2000 to study for a PhD at the Fraunhofer Institute with a DAAD grant. During my time there, I took an interest in multimedia, metadata, MPEG-4 and the Semantic Web.

Around the turn of 2003/4 I spent some months working in IT for a private company, but since April 2004 I am a researcher at the Free University of Berlin funded by the EU network Knowledge Web.

Interests
I like listening to U2, Eels, some DJ stuff like DJ Shadow and the Chemical Brothers, electrojazz and downbeat styles like Kruder & Dorfmeister. I have also gotten more into world music, and currently enjoy listening to Latin rock (Mana, Juanes...) and reggaeton.

Favourite shows include The Simpsons, The Office and Father Ted. Favorite films include Trainspotting, Fight Club and Before Sunrise. I like the directors Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater.

I read among others Douglas Coupland, Jack Kerouac, M. Scott Peck and Frederick Buechner.

Top artists are Salvador Dali, Keith Haring and Roy Liechtenstein. The best architects are Gaudi and Hundertwasser.

My fave locations in the world are (cities) New York, Barcelona and Vienna and (places) Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, the Grand Canyon and the Burren in western Ireland.