{"id":74,"date":"2007-01-11T20:44:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/five-things\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T13:26:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T13:26:45","slug":"five-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/five-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

My fellow Talisian Ian Davis tagged me over on his blog<\/a>, so here’s five things you might not already know about me.<\/p>\n

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  1. I’ve been playing Chess since I was around 5 years old. Even won a few competitions when I was younger. Although I don’t play as much as I would like I do often play online on ChessBase<\/a> or try to solve those irritating Chess problems you see in newspapers, and I think I spend too much time playing and loosing against Fritz<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  2. Mixed Martial Arts<\/a> takes up a lot of my time. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea and some people have strong views against it as a sport but I love it, and it’s provided me with an outlet as well as inspiration at various stages of my life.<\/li>\n
  3. I love reading. Anything from technical works, blogs to the classics and even comics. I’m a huge Sci-Fi fan and whilst I enjoy reading contemporary sci-fi I’m going through a phase where I’m reading many older works, I currently have a particular affinity with the works of Theodore Sturgeon<\/a> as well as Isaac Asimov’s<\/a> earlier writings. I even started writing my own story, it’s something I keep revisiting from time to time.<\/li>\n
  4. Of all the places on earth I’ve visited I think Cape Town is still the most beautiful, it always feels as though I’ve left a part of me there … but that’s a whole different story \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n
  5. I struggle within myself to constantly evaluate and challenge the things I think I believe in … possibly in a futile attempt to try and better understand who I am, who I want to be and my place in this world … not sure how good I am at it but it doesn’t half complicate things<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I don’t really have five friends who blog, and since all the other Talisian’s have either been tagged by Ian or Rob<\/a>, I’m going to tag the following friends:<\/p>\n

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    1. Alan<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Russell<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. AndyP<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Dave Errington<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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