The more I look around other people's blogs, the more I find a propensity for creating lists of salient (and not so salient) facts and figures about the blogee. As one who can rarely resist a trend and probably because I doubt I ever had an original thought in my life, I may as well start one here. The prime reason for this I must add, is that I've not said an awful lot in these parts of late. For my inspiration this evening, I give you a list courtesy of sex blogger in-Chief, Ms Margolis - her list. I should add that there are aspects of her list I will not be attempting to match - I'll leave you to work out what those are for yourselves...

• I was born in the 60's and can even claim to remember parts of this
• I have lived and worked in the Middle East for the last 10 years
• I spent some 9 years in the Royal Air Force
• I love music above any other art form, even more so if it contains big raunchy guitar sounds
• I have noticed that everything on this list begins with the letter "I"
• I own and play quite a few guitars
• I am something of a fidget, and can't sit still in front of a film, this is an art form that's never really grabbed me
• Probably my favourite song is Rush's Limelight from their 'Moving Pictures' album. I use the first 11 seconds of this song as my mobile phone ringtone
• The irony of the conjunction of the last two items has not escaped me...
• I can account now for two marriages (2nd one reaches its 10th anniversary next July), so you could say it's an institution I'm comfortable with
• It's probably fair to say I'm fascinated by web-tech stuff, but I never feel I know enough to do anything productive in that vein
• My other significant art form interest is photography, something readily confirmed by a quick browse here within
• I do tend to get bored rather easily and engage with, drift away from and pick-up again, a wide range of interests
• Currently, I'm trying to work out how to write something that might stand some sort of test of time
• I will of course tire of the notion at some point over the next 48 hours
• Reading is another place you can find me, this may be one the few interests I have that I never tire of
• Despite my best efforts, I almost always become emotionally involved with the story line and its characters
• ...I should at this juncture state that the above was not strictly true for "A Brief History of Time", sorry Stephen
• I have a deep seated dislike of exercise, as much as I know it's good for me
• One three and half year old coronary stent later, there is perhaps the suggestion that I ought to deal with the above
• The less said about golf the better - I have history...
• I've never been to Agent Provocateur
• I tend to view food as something of a chore, though I can cook perfectly well - I tend to think in terms of knitting patterns here, just follow the instructions
• I abhor boorish behaviour and will actively seek to avoid it
• Mornings are to be avoided at all costs, unless they are approached from midnight onwards
• I'm not what you would call a big drinker, though I do enjoy a pint of Guinness and a descent bottle of vino collapso
• I am of the firm belief that the mouth and the ears should be used in direct proportion to which they are provided
• I 'get' Twitter (though not yet the new lists feature)
• I miss Pownce - damn you Messrs Rose, Burka and Ms Culver - will SixApart ever resurrect it I wonder? I hope so...
• I have no interest in clothing or fashion - shopping in this area is an in and out job, there is much more to life
• Unless of course it is any form of technical clothing related to a sporting or recreational activity
• I am a proud season ticket holding Stoke City fan, even if it does currently mean that a home game is a 6,000 mile round trip
• The old Victoria Ground was no more than 100 yards from the house I inhabited for the first 8 years of my life - it infected me righteously
• Dentists are to be feared and preferably avoided unless essential maintenance deems their services unavoidable
• I detest green and runner beans in all their forms - I spent many a miserable hour at the Sunday dinner table in their presence, however the battle of wills on their account was always settled in my favour
• I prefer buying CDs to downloading inferior quality MP3 or other compressed format media
• As a direct consequence of the above, it has taken an awful lot of time to get the 6,600 tracks I have on my iPod processed through iTunes
• I am not overly concerned by the presence of chemicals in my diet, or the use of prescription drugs where required
• I would though, actively avoid the latter where there intent is to somehow alter my mood, even where prescribed for addressing sleep pattern deficiencies
• You are unlikely to change my opinion, though I will not press them upon you
• Likewise, I have no real desire to have you proselytise your opinion on me - let's agree to disagree now and save any aggravation later
• ...how many is that?
• I have no use for religion and would generally consider blind faith in the absence of empirical evidence to be nonsensical. Where empirical evidence is not available, I have no desire to ascribe any untested or manifestly unusual behaviour or observation to any given choice of deity - in this regard, I subscribe firmly to the Adams school to whit "Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
• Anyone who believes that the concept that "all men are created equal" can be put into practice needs to visit the Middle East
• I firmly believe that no one reads this blog and that the b2evolution stats pages are auto-generated to make me feel better about the time their software steals from me
• Were I to start tomorrow, I would produce a different list
• I have almost certainly gone on for too long, though surprisingly the spelling and grammar appears to have held up really well

I am hopeful that I have done the list meme proud, but only you can say for sure...