marypcb

Mary to Many

The girl with the USB earring; omnivorous UK tech journalist

Name:
Mary Branscombe
Birthdate:
21 April 1967
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Website:
Simon & Mary
Schools:
Ormskirk Grammar School - Ormskirk, England - Lancashire, United Kingdom (1977 - 1979)
Millfield School - Street, England - Somerset, United Kingdom (1979 - 1984)
Davies' College - Camden, England - Greater London, United Kingdom (1984 - 1985)
St. Michael's C of E Primary School - Aughton, England - Lancashire, United Kingdom
St. Michael's C of E School - Ormskirk, England - Lancashire, United Kingdom
University of Oxford - Oxford, England - Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (1985 - 1989)
University of Essex - Colchester, England - Essex, United Kingdom (1989 - 1990)
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alias, an equally large boa, application development advisor, art, babylon 5, beads, books, braids, bruce cockburn, bryan talbot, buffy, callahans, canada, cats, charles de lint, chocolate, computers, copper wire, crime fiction, dexter, dornford yates, dorothy l sayers, dreads, dvds, earl grey tea, ellis peters, equally large boa, extensions, fake hair, falls, fantasy fiction, giant butterflies, h beam piper, hair, hair dye, hair extentions, iain banks, intelligent conversation, jennifer crusie, jewelled dragonflies, juliet e. mckenna, knitting, lanzarote, loudon wainwright, movies, mystery fiction, mythology, neil gaiman, newfoundland, one o'they ford vans, one o'they sleepervans, oxford, pachabel, peach iced tea, pizza, pretty flowers, purple, reading, ribbons, satin roses, sbisson, science fiction, scotland, sf, sf&f, shells, silk, silk flowers, smoothies, stella gibbons, suzanne vega, the closer, the ft, the guardian, the west wing, tom lehrer, west wing, writing, yarn dreads
Bio
As a freelance computer journalist and old-time member of alt.callahans, I'm used to talking about myself in the third person, but this time I won't. I share two cats with my husband Simon Bisson in leafy South London, in a house too-full of books. I've worked on various UK computer magazines, at AOL UK and done science fiction journalism too, as well as perpetrating a couple of SF conventions with Simon; I write for a wide range of titles and edit IT Expert magazine too. I'm an optimist, a cynic and a perpetual semi-outsider who finds everything interesting.

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