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From Wikipedia, the free
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Brian
(born in 1981) is an all
round silly-sausage, a webmaster, not a webmistress or a
they/them. He is an occasional photograph takerer, a video editor,
a cyclist,
and by trade, a computer technician.[citation
needed] He also owns a cat.[citation
needed]
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Early life
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Brian was
born in 1981 in the UK, the oldest of a few siblings.
His father died when Brian was at a very young age and
his mother remarried.[1] His family moved a few times
during his childhood, eventually settling on Anglesey.
Brian was gifted a
second-hand ZX
Spectrum one childhood Christmas and thus began his
enjoyment in tinkering with computers. Brian began
buying a weekly lottery ticket when he became old enough
to do so. He programmed his ZX Spectrum to provide him
with random numbers to be used with the lottery and with
his first ticket he won £10. A year later he won £2,113.
With half of this money he bought his first
Windows-based computer and, once connected to the
internet via dial-up, began building his website BMH
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Brian
crouching amongst some megalithic stones, somewhere
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Born |
December 1981 (age, you can work it out)
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Website
bmh.neocities.org
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Social Media
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The first
rendition of BMH Online was hosted at Geocities, but it
quickly ran out of space and was further uploaded to
FortuneCity, TopCities and other free hosting sites at
the time.
Also at the
start, Brian visited the then popular online chat
service Yahoo! Chat and also used the MSN and Yahoo!
Messenger services. Beyond having a MySpace profile he
has shied-away from other social network platforms, such
as Facebook, since they are "populated by the masses".
Wordpress blog
In 2011 Brian
began his blog under the same banner BMH Online,
but later called Brian's Blog with the subheading
…one man's contribution to the Weeeeerly Wild World.
To this date he has posted hundreds of blog posts and
has amassed over 500 followers on the platform. His most
popular topic currently on the platform is
“Lockdown”, an early phase of The Matrix? Not one to
shy away from criticizing the platform, his second most
popular post (currently on the platform) is Buggered
by Blocks Bollocks where he airs his frustrations
regarding the editor page.
Youtube
While
achieving a modicum of followers on Wordpress, his
Youtube presence has been less successful. This is not
through a lack of content. He began uploading to the
platform somewhere around 2016. In 2018 he uploaded his
first Brian Goes Biking episode, aptly named
BGB#1 - Brian Goes Biking. The series continues to
this day and has surpassed (as of March 2021) episode
#42. In December of 2019 Brian began a series of
recordings titled Brian reads... where he
typically reads a short story that is uploaded each
Saturday.
Neocities
In June of
2020 Brian discovered Neocities and began building his
website there. Quickly building a following, surpassing
100 in March of the following year, he continues to
enjoy keeping his audience happy with updates regarding
the lives of his many Tamagotchis, and pictures of his[citation
needed] cat.
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Music
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From
childhood Brian dabbled with various musical
instruments, including the recorder, the piano, the
trumpet, the acoustic guitar, and the keyboard, before
settling on the electric guitar. Playing mostly for his
own amusement, and not achieving a standard he is
confident with, he has rarely uploaded any of his
efforts to play along to the various songs that take his
fancy.
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Cycling and Camping
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Before birth
Brian was set to ride a bicycle. His father was a
cyclist and it has been said[citation
needed] that even in the womb it was like he
was riding a bike. He would later be seen cycling to
high school, and college after that.
Scotland and Ireland
In 2016 Brian
set off from his home on Anglesey in Wales, UK, on his
bicycle, complete with camping gear to cross the border
between England and Scotland four days later, complete
with a squeaky chain and pneumonia. From there he
travelled on up through the Highlands, before catching a
ferry to the isle of Lewis. After a day spent there he
returned south via another ferry, cycled back down
through Scotland and caught a further ferry to Northern
Ireland. He then headed immediately south to Dublin,
visiting Newgrange on the way, before catching a final
ferry to home.
Convinced by
the idea he no longer needed a car in his day-to-day
life, he lived for the following few years without one.
In 2019 Brian
returned by bike to Scotland, this time via Sheffield,
before crossing the Scottish border and immediately
heading for Northern Ireland. There he circumnavigated
Ireland reaching as far south as Galway, before heading
East to home.
Camp Corona
The Covid-19
outbreak saw restrictions being placed on travel. Keen
to spend more time in his tent, Brian pitched his in his
back garden and proceeded to upload videos to Youtube of
his experiences, and his cat.[citation
needed]
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