Dave Whiteland

Just the facts.

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I'm a Computer Scientist by training (I studied and even taught at the Comp Sci department at Royal Holloway).

 

I've spent around six years, on and off, in Thailand. For two and a half of those years I was a volunteer at a girls' school, where I taught art to 6-year-olds, and English to 11-year-olds.

I recently became an ex-biker. I used to ride a Honda NT650DV. If you don't know about bikes, you'll think: ooh, big bike. If you know the difference between an NT and a CBR, you'll think: Dullville.

I sometimes crew a type of sailing boat called a Drascombe. Two masts, tan sails, and the whole thing the size of a very large wardrobe.

For not entirely practical reasons, I'm a member of the IGKT:

I consume the following things regularly:

Two worthy causes to which I belong:

There are a number of people whom I greatly admire, and luckily for me several of them are my friends and teachers.

Finally, in a list of no particular order, here are some people whose lives or work are, to my mind, especially deserving of a standing ovation: