What's your unique interest?

People are probably my greatest interest thanks Rachel. And interesting questions, thanks. Their/our interactions with computers, the interweb and technology is, I suppose, my speciality.

Cognitive and Applied Psychology is my academic background. I was first paid to create websites in 1992 or 3 and in 1996 11 friends from university and I set up the first of two digital marketing agencies we owned until 2007.

Since the mid-90s I've taught the use of computers to people with (and without) most of the disabilities there are, in English and French. Focused mostly on people with learning difficulties and people who are blind.

If animation is something you've enjoyed, have you had the opportunity to explore the Macromedia Flash range of software, or 3D Studio Max? I appreciate they're very expensive but we learned to use them using cracked versions for free. They've got a lot better at protecting their software but I assume such software will be available for free somewhere online and they make producing advert-quality animations fantastically easy. Hugely empowering stuff.

Watching the interweb evolve has been quite a journey. When I first got an interweb connection at home in 1991 the only British-based websites were a few prisons and hospitals. Virtually nothing else, ironically. It was barely used for more than email and there were no adverts anywhere!

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Twisty puzzles and other puzzles in general. It all started with the Rubik's cube.

Hi Rachel_Scope, as well as twisty puzzles I like take apart and put together puzzles/kong ming locks, tile sliding puzzles like the 15 puzzle and the Missing Link, ball puzzles like the Hungarian Rings, packing puzzles where you have to fit different shaped pieces into some housing like the tangram, jigsaw puzzles, Rubik's/Hungarian snake, dexterity games where for example you have to manoeuvre a ball bearing into a certain position, and bit of everything else.

I have hundreds in several plastic tubs.

Yes, I still have my Rubik's cube and many more 3x3's.

Here's just a few examples.

My biggest and smallest 3x3 (they're fully functional and can be scrambled and solved) with a Rubik's cube in the middle for a size comparison.

Rachel_Scope each edge is 30cm, and each edge on the smallest one is 1cm.