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I decided to finally have a page about me. If you want to know what I like then the rest of the site will pretty much tell you that.

For those who want to know where the name paranoidangel came from, it's a long(ish) story. It starts in my first year at uni when we'd play Quake all night. I needed to come up with a name for that and thought of Paranoid Android. Sadly, unless I took the space out, Quake wouldn't let me have a name that long. So I went with Paranoid which did describe me well. It went with the Garbage song, I Think I'm Paranoid as well.

So far, so good. Then I got a computer of my own (which I still have, old as it is) and a freeserve account to connect to the internet with. They operated a system where you have an e-mail address which is name@something.freeserve.co.uk. I thought I'd use nic as the name and paranoid as the something. Except that someone already had it. So I can up with the angel part from Angel (who was still in Buffy at the time).

It is technically one word, but I'll go with Paranoid Angel, since a lot of people seem to think that's what it is. It also gets shortened to PA (which came from The Bill chatroom where everything got shortened). I can be found under that name in various places. Someone else got there first at livejournal though, so I'm paranoidangel42 there.

You can read my babblings in my blog if you want to know more.

As far as this site is concerned this version is now the fourth incarnation. the third incarnation. The first was pink and started off as a list of bookmarks that I could use on either account at uni or at home. Then I added an episode guide, since I found it helpful to know where we were at Modern Sci-Fi showings. Plus I needed to learn some html for a first year course.

When I left my account was deleted (although my csv e-mail address still works - I'm getting junk mail from it) so the next version was over at my freeserve account. It was black, as seemed to be the fashion in web sites at the time. It was fine for a while, but eventually needed reorganising. At the same time I got myself my own domain name and decided red was the way to go (I like red). Mostly I've now CSS'ed it and taken away the episode guides, as there are plenty of other places on the web to find that information. At least if I want to change the look it should now be a bit easier...