About Francis Chin

This is the web site of someone called Francis Chin. Sometimes he puts photos and other stuff up that others might like to see.

Likes

Google Earth
Applying Gaffer tape to things
Publishing lots of embarrassing pictures of people on the web

Dislikes

Chavs
FUD around electromagnetic emissions (a.k.a. Wi-Fi radiation, mobile phone masts frying people's brains, WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?). One day, journalists stop being gullible and not be used by crazed zealots punting their pseudo-science to confirm their own neuroses or sell their snake-oil to even more gullible, hysterical hypochondriacs. I live in hope. And one day the BBC might return to making decent, scientifically-informed programmes too...
People who hog the middle lane of motorways

Fairly distant history

I am a graduate of the University Of Bristol with a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (MEng).

Friends

Not just an over-extended American TV sitcom...

A few are on Orkut, a fair number are on FarceBook, but there's not much point in me trying to include a link here...

Dan and Anna (Mr & Mrs Lawson) have a web site together (awww...)
Lots of guff & crap at Ask Johnson. It belongs to Richard "Pikey" Johnson.
Dan Taylor promised me a pint* if I included a link to his web site. There's two there, so hopefully I'll get two pints**.
Ben (Edward) Egglestone (Benji to his flatmates) used to have a web site - but it is now gone, disappeared into the digital ether...
Giles "Stalker" Moss has a cool web site used for his own nefarious purposes.
Andy "Treasurer" Johnson used to have a great web site recording his exploits in Seattle, but it has now disappeared.
Crap Dave used to have an infamous web site created by Si Parker and co - but it has bitten the dust.
Anthony "Pie" Whittaker too has a web site celebrating his nickname, this one created by me, Benji, Si and Crap Dave.
Last but not least we have the Shandy From B*Witched Appreciation web site (this one is my fault too).

You may be able to find pictures of people mentioned above in the photo galleries.

*probably a lie
**unlikely

Amusing quotations

Go visit this page of random (mis)quotations if you're one of my ex-blockmates (Goldney B-block of 1999-2000) or know who they are:

Andy "Northerner" Johnson
Jane "Lady Penelope" Hurd
Alex "Abo-Toshiba" Aboshiha
Kik (I can't remember how to spell her full name but it begins with something like "Pornika...")
Agathe Hackett
Cat Rackham
Giles "Stalker" Moss
Mike "Curry Monster" Nix
Dan "I demolished Goldney's I-block in a drunken haze" Lawson
Pants (aka Anthony Pengelly, but only to his parents) - honorary B2 flatmate 1999-2000
Ben "Fluffy Ben" Egglestone - honorary B2 flatmate 2000-2001

Also featured:

Tom
Jo "Sexy Jo" Argent

About this web site

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Technical stuff

This site is hosted on my own server which runs Opensolaris and the Apache, MySQL & PHP stack.

The innocent.me.uk logo was created using Xara Xtreme for Linux.

The gallery is run using Exhibit Engine.