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Me racing Senior National gokart at Brooklyn
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Favourite colour: yellow
Favourite food: tropical fruit
Favourite book: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Favourite TV show: Yes minister
Favourite sports: cycling, gokart racing, yachting, gliding
Favourite computer: hasn't been invented yet
Favourite quote: "Democracy is the least bad form of government"
Major dislikes: dumb traffic control signals, ads interrupting TV shows
To find out more about where I come from, check out Maryborough Queensland.
Samples of my WWW hobbywork
- Top of class in year 9 at Highett High school, Victoria
- Holder of Australian record for class 2 teamrace model aeroplanes for 7 years
- Qualified as a Production Engineer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- Winner of FAI Teamrace for model aeroplanes at National Championships 1973
- Winner of numerous state tiles for model aeroplane competitions
- Worked in Canada and USA for 6 months as product engineer with IBM
- Founder member and President of Wangaratta Model Aero Club
- Holder of Silver C Certificate for glider flying
- Successful cross-country glider pilot, having covered 350km in one flight
- Winner of Stawell Yacht Club pennant race series 1984 sailing Mirror dinghy
- Survivor of Great Victorian Bike Ride 1988 - Swan Hill to Melbourne
- Survivor of Great Tasmanian Bike Ride 1990 - Devonport to Hobart
- Appointed Management Information Systems Manager for Smithkline Beecham
- Travelled around the world in 14 days (on business)
- Gokart driver of the year in Senior National class at Oakleigh, Victoria 1991
- Backpacked across South East Asia from Bangkok to Darwin
- Founder member and President of Maryborough Computer Club
- Captained a keelboat cruising Australia's east coast without major disaster
Contents Copyright © 1998 by David Kidd . Updated 2008, All rights reserved.
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