A little background on me
Hi! My name is Michael.
I am 21 years old, and I am part of the
Curry Family.
I have one brother,
Paul, and
can also visit my Dad's homepage:
www.curry.f2s.com. The
picture on the right was taken 9th April 2006... This picture has come
out better than some of myself :-|
I live in Saltdean (near Brighton), in good old rainy Britain.
I currently go to Brighton University,
studying Computer & Electronic Engineering. Although currently a little
out of date, my university website can be found here:
uni.mcurry.co.uk.
Apologies for the fact that some of the
content here is a little out of date - all the extra work load of final
year projects and dissertations for university have caused a lot of
things to be forgotten about!
Until recently (3rd May) I worked for the
local co-op... not a lot to say about it, apart from it was reasonable
money and nice and easy to get to (5 min walk), although 4 1/2 years at
that place was a little too long! Now all I need to do is find a
graduate vacancy and get a proper job with my degree!
 At the end of September 2004 I bought
my first car. It was a Blue 1995 Fiat Cinquecento. I have posted
some pictures in a gallery
here
for anyone interested. It is only 899cc, but it did me nicely for
the 6 mile trip into uni each day. The speakers in the front of the
cinquecento are so small, that don't give good bass response at all, so
I installed some good £50 6x9 pioneers in the parcel shelf. These 6x9s
gave far better bass, but
the only way to stop the badges on them rattling, was sticking them
in place with some good old blu-tak.
In June 2006, I bought my second car - a 5 door 'tie-break' green
'Roland Garros' limited edition Peugeot 206. I have made a picture
gallery here. Although I haven't driven
many cars, I can say with no doubt how much better it is than the cinq.
The driving position is a little different to the cinq, but it didn't
take long to get used to. The bigger engine really makes a
difference, for not only overtaking, but accelerating up the hilly south
downs in the area! One of the only things that I preferred on the cinq,
was how much easier it was to manoeuvre - thinner body pillars and being
smaller gave it good visibility and a smaller turning circle made
parking a doddle, whereas the 206 being longer and safer (with wider
corner supports) gives a larger turning circle and more blind spots.
Interior comfort is also much better than the cinq - leather trim sporty
seats in the front are much more comfy and being longer gives good boot
space and better leg
room in the back, although there is restricted headroom for taller
passengers in the rear seats.
 Other
hobbies of mine include listening and playing traditional folk music.
Mainly I will be found playing English tunes on my violin (picture on
the right) but I also play some Irish and Scottish pieces as well.
I started playing violin in '93 and was classically trained, until '02
when study commitments meant I could not continue with the lessons (at
this point I was at grade 6 standard). Since then I have carried on
playing for fun at the tune sessions around Lewes, where people don't
mind if you hit the odd wrong note etc!
Regular sessions I will usually be found at include:
I am currently a member of the
Network Scout Unit in Saltdean, which currently is operating as part
of the '3 Deans' Explorer Unit.
The 3 deans group is fed into by the
42nd Brighton (Saltdean)
scout troop.
Also, why not pay a visit to the Brighton Scouts web
site, or Scout Base.
 I
also have a religious, spiritual side and regularly attend Sunday Mass
at the university catholic chaplaincy. Being the talented musician I am,
I also play violin for the chaplaincy music group, which accompanies the
service.
 Having become a little lapse after
becoming a supervisor for the co-op (working all day Sunday), when I
re-arranged my hours, I then became more in touch with my religious side
again. After a year of avoiding doing any of the chaplaincy organised
events, I went on the
Worth Abbey retreat,
and really loved it. However, my time at the chaplaincy may be limited,
unless I (as I plan to) find employment local enough that getting to
Falmer isn't too much of a distance!
As part of my work for the chaplaincy, I
also currently run and maintain a small website for the chaplaincy,
which can be found here:
www.rcchap.org.uk
 In
2006, my brother and I took up climbing and have been going to the
indoor climbing wall in Shoreham most weeks since starting. I also
joined the University of Brighton
Mountaineering Club at the beginning of this academic year (2006/7).
The UBMC are much more into doing their climbing on actual rocks, but
since I have had so much work to do for uni, I haven't had much of a
chance to do any offsite climbing with them, which is a shame. However,
with any luck I hope to get some climbing on sandstone done in the
summer (up at Harrisons / Bowles etc), which should be enjoyable.
In 2003-4, I joined the cipher club at Varndean, and
entered into a team for the
Southampton University
Cipher Challenge. If you are interested in ciphers, then why not
visit my cipher sub-page... happy cracking!
[update] Because of workload of College coursework, and the CBA
factor, this hasn't been updated for a while, when I get some more
free time, I shall upload some more different types of cipher
cracking tools. BTW all the tools I have created are uploaded
here, along with other pieces of software I
have created: ./software.
[update] I am now unfortunately too old to enter the 2004-5 cipher
challenge and therefore I might not get round to completing all the
cipher tools.
The team I was in even got recognition in the local paper -
click to view the article.
There is also an article about myself and team partner Ed Craske on
the
Varndean Website.
 My brother (Paul) is also interested in
computer programming, and has released AFP.NET (Advanced Flash Player,
on the .NET framework). This can be found on his domain cr3ation.co.uk
(click ^above^).
For those interested, I have also created a small
WAP site. There is not much here, but is a nice homepage to use on
my phone :)
WAP SITE IN DEVELOPMENT:
http://mjc.r8.org/wap.wml
Out of interest, if you do try the WAP site, I would be
interested to know the outcome - please contact me using the address
at the bottom of the page.
Other Websites Of Mine
Alias Website names
Contact me:
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