User:Dave w74

Ah, the wonderful world of Wikipedia!

I'm pretty new at this game but have edited and written a handful of articles. Here are some topic areas I'm interested in or have written or edited articles about {or plan to}:

• Yorkshire
  • Kingston Upon Hull
  • Swanland
  • Ilkley Moor
  • Humber Bridge
  • North Ferriby
• Speech synthesis and speech recognition
• Microsoft, particularly:
  • Speech Application Programming Interface - I'd like to add newer articles on other Speech Technology at Microsoft topics.
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
  • .NET Framework
  • Windows Desktop Search
• Seattle, Washington, and the Cascade Mountains
• Linguistics including American and British English differences
• Indie Music, particularly shoegazing British indie bands from the 80s and 90s:
  • Ride (band)
  • New FADS
  • House of Love
  • James (band)
  • Joy Division etc.
  • Creation Records - one day I'd like to expand this article.
• Folk Rock
• World War II
  • Battle of the Barents Sea
    • HMS Orwell (G98) - my Grandfather served on this ship
    • HMS Onslow (G17)
  • Escort aircraft carriers - I've been doing a bunch of tidying up on the articles related to this type of ship:
    • List of United States Navy escort aircraft carriers
    • List of escort aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
    • Nairana class escort carrier
      • HMS Nairana (D05)
      • HMS Vindex (D15)
    • HMS Pretoria Castle (F61), HMS Campania (D48), HMS Activity (D94), HMS Tracker (D24)
    • Sangamon class escort carrier

You can probably discover lots about who I am from the above list.