My Likes

• My partner - funny how you can meet someone who you could have been partnered life after life. How strange it can seem that when you met you feel like you have known them forever, that you can have a love, a trust that transcends all other measures.
   
• I love my boi  - I have a special dogslave that is the most selfless creatures I have ever seen. He loves me; both my top and sub side unconditionally. He has no jealousy of my boyfriend (gets on with each other amazingly). There is no projection of what he would like me to be,
• My slaves - hearing them call me Master or Sir, the look in their eyes then way they are, their slave souls. I love blissing them out, how they crave my touch, the need and want in their eyes. Slaves are truly special creatures.
   
• I love  Bikes  - obscenely powerful and utterly unnecessary. The guys that ride them, the head to toe Leather (and rubber under it!), they wear, the masked face under the Darth Vader/Storm Trooper Helmet, with their leather legs gripping hundreds of CC's of screaming adrenaline alloy. Seeing them pass on the motorway, how you dribble the this leather covered vision riding the missile at some insane speed.
   
• Sleeping naked on leather hides in summer, reaching down to feel the head of my pup on the floor next to me as a cool breeze breaks the summer heat.
• The touch of body warmed leather, when I pull my boi's butt into my loins, feel his chaps, or his cute butt.  Maybe sleeping next to him holding his chain collar or lead and my hand secure around his balls as he drifts off to sleep.
• Arts that give a unity of action and sprit; a mastery of movement and a sense of awareness so heightened it seems almost instinctual such as Ki-Akido,  and Kyudo
• Basketball and Volleyball - this is just so much fun. Though Basket Ball fucks your knees after a while.
• A nice cup of tea - so English. I just love all the weird eccentricities that the English have.
  How English that every thing stops for tea - about 4 o'clock. Even better biking around in the countryside and stopping to tea and scones with Cornish clotted cream (killer cholesterol) and some Strawberry jam. Funny that in the middle of nowhere you see a sign saying "Cream teas"
• A nice cup of Coffee - so Continental. Having it black and sweet. Not like American coffee, but like Austrian or Turkish coffee. So strong you need a knife to cut it. With more caffeine than is legally safe.
• I love being English - that is deep with in my identity.
  I love being European. I cannot wait to be part of a United States of Europe, because we are all pretty much the same, except we speak different languages. Though so many can speak English there well - just wish more Brits spoke more than just English.
  This is not the same has having a flag in every classroom at school and pledging allegiance to it. For the British nationalism is more subtle than that. The way the Americans do it at say Baseball games or whatever almost seems in bad taste. Different styles I guess.
• I love Music -  from the Ambient and trippy to the off your face Techno-Trace as typified by the Euphoria CD. Typically music to program by. For me that is no words, just stuff that gets your mind at peace. The music breaks into two I guess, that which you actively focus on, and that which you experience. I also like "soft rock". I have to be careful here because American/or the CDDB more or less say if its not Gospel/rap or country it must be rock. So this really means 'other' not rock. However soft rock is not say "Rage against the machine" (which I also like).
   
• I like cultural diversity and History - For me I like to see how as a human race we spread across the planet, how some belief systems developed in a similar pattern even though they were both 1000s of miles apart. This comes across in the the face we should cherish diversity not be scared of it. Like the old saying goes "Evolve or die".
• Patterns - this is my fascination. This is work related, in comes into its own from a UML point of you, but also from design patterns, behaviour patterns in software reuse thru to usability. Use patterns of inane things, like how using the mouse on your PC has become a lower cortex function of your brain - that is the pointer and behaviour on the screen is an extension of your body, like an extra limb. What about the control of other object and interfaces. Setting the time on almost all digital clocks is the same 'nudge and tweak' behaviour. How interesting to design an interface that is not dependant on language but we all know how to use it. What then when it looks like something we know and the behaviour is wildly different.
• Reliable Operating Systems like... Let me think oh yes I could leave OS/2 up for months and never have to reboot it, I have heard similar things from Linux. Imagine that, it just works, it does not leak memory all over the place, its quick and lean.