Who Am I?

What a question! My name is Andy Pryke, I live in Moseley in Birmingham, England ( see map ).

Probably the most interesting thing on this site is my blog, it's regularly updated, and deals mainly with the local art and music scenes, with the occasional speculation on technology, restaurant review or attempt at humour thrown in. I've also put together some of the things I enjoyed most in 2005. As for 2006, so far I've really enjoyed my visits to Vancouver and Reykjavik, and to the Big Chill, Summer Sundae and Edinburgh Festivals.

Some other random facts about me:

• According to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter %EXT% I've got a ENTP (Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving) personality type - this means I've an Inventor Personality - who am I to argue?
• You can trust me - I'm a doctor! I have a Ph.D. in Data Mining Using Symbolic Genetic Algorithms And Interactive Visualisation from the University of Birmingham.
• I have an unusual surname Pryke, so I set up a Pryke's Page
• I'm a member of Birmingham Friends Of The Earth %EXT%.
• I tend to use too many lists, dashes and brackets when writing online.

If you're looking to employ me, take a look at my Curriculum Vitae.

What's on this site?

In addition to My Blog, there's a lot of other stuff on this site. Some of it old, some of it new, though I tend to skip the borrowed and the blue.

To find out more check out...

• "Back issues" of my blog and "Best Of Blog 2005"
• Recent changes
• Recent Readings - Books I've read
• Music I Like, Encounters With Art, Weird Internet Animations
• Hypertext And Wiki Wiki Fever - I invented the web you know
• Spread Of Ideas And Belief Change - Why do we believe what we believe?
• Fun Stuff - Shiny things, including Collected Quotes, Dump The Pubs, Humour Links and Its Just Bizare
• Did you know that the most interesting thing on the internet only occurs 6 times in google at the present (2003/12/18)! Giant Screaming Bats only occurs once.
• index of all pages on this site
• More Bits And Pieces Which Dont Fit Anywhere Yet

Contact Details

The best email address to contact me on is "website (put_at_sign_here) AndyPryke.com". I get around 500 messages a day, 95% of them spam, so please try to include a meaningful subject to get through my spam filter. If I don't reply please do try again!