User:Markz55

About me
I have lived in the Midlands of England all of my life. I am married. I have been fortunate to travel the world for both work and pleasure. In fact travel is one of my great passions. I am retired now but worked in a railway computing/IT arena but despite this I only started editing Wikipedia in Feb 2008. I am a Chartered Engineer, a European Engineer and in 2009 I became a Fellow of the  IMechE. In Feb 2012, I became an Ambassador for the IMechE and STEMNet as I really want to help young people become interested in technology and engineering.

My Interests
I am interested in a variety of topics including:

Music
 * Dance
 * Electronica
 * Trance
 * Some Rock
 * Some Britpop
 * Some R&B
 * Some Pop
 * New Romantics from the 80's

My favourite artists include (in no particular order):

Top 20 Singles of the Noughties (I struggled to narrow it down to 10!) - not really in any order.

1)	I Can’t Let You Go – Ian Van Dahl

2)	Who Do You Love Now? – RIVA and Dannii Minogue

3)	Satellite – OceanLab

4)	We Come 1 – Faithless

5)	American Dream – Jakatta

6)	Don’t Stop The Music – Rihanna

7)	Give It 2 Me – Madonna

8)	Vertigo – U2

9)	Crazy In Love – Beyoncé

10)	Sex On Fire – Kings Of Leon

11)	As The Rush Comes – Motorcycle

12)	Push The Button – Sugababes

13)	Dream On – Christian Falk featuring Robyn

14)	Cry For You – September

15)	When Love Takes Over - David Guetta

16)	Flawless – The Ones

17)	Urban Train – DJ Tiësto

18)	Sand In My Shoes – Dido

19)	Clocks – Coldplay

20)	Sound of the Underground – Girls Aloud

Top 10 Albums of the Noughties (In order)

1)	Eyes Open – Snow Patrol

2)	X&Y – Coldplay

3)	Hard Candy – Madonna

4)	FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake

5)	Everything's Eventual – Appleton

6)	Taller In More Ways – Sugababes

7)	Hopes and Fears – Keane

8)	Life For Rent – Dido

9)	We'll Live and Die in These Towns – The Enemy

10)	We Started Nothing – The Ting Tings

Travel


 * See the countries I have visited below.

Railways


 * Ffestiniog Railway

Films


 * Star Wars
 * Lord of the Rings
 * Comedies
 * British Movies (Old and New)

Computing


 * Programming
 * Wikipedia