Ben "MartianSpider/bma" A'Lee

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• 2006 onwards - Secretary / Head Technical Officer
• 2005 - 2006 - Technical Officer
• 2004 - 2005 - Secretary

The gothic broomstick Head Tech Officer, in eternal war with Skippy.

Ben showed up about a month after Freshers' Fayre 2004, having decided he needed to get out more. He soon got elected as the new Secretary, the previous incumbent (Tempy) having gone off in a huff some weeks previously. His main competition for this role was a beer glass in the Skiving Scholar, it was thought unfair that he must be given the position without any kind of democratic process.

At the AGM in February 2005, Ben successfully bribed his way into the position of Tech Officer, taking over from the soon-to-graduate Gemma, part of his ultimate plan for world domination. It is a dirty lie that the boxen has had more problems since he took over than ever before, he's just unfortunate enough to have to deal with problems caused by Dave a few years previously.

The following year, despite wishing to give up the role of Tech Officer, Ben wound up being voted in as both Secretary and Tech Officer.

Spends most of his time in his room, fiddling with his computers (especially if the alternative is actual work) and listening to U2. Lots of U2. His current projects include finishing TermiHelp, writing an operating system and creating seizure-inducing Javascript.

Ben has occasionally been known to wear clothing that isn't black.

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ running Debian GNU/Linux; 1GB RAM, 160GB IDE hdd, 320GB SATA hdd.

Lenovo 3000 C100 laptop running Debian GNU/Linux; 256MB RAM, 40GB hdd.

Sun Ultra 5 Workstation running Debian GNU/Linux; 128MB RAM, 2x120GB hdd.

Bytemark virtual machine (User-Mode Linux) running Debian GNU/Linux; 80MB RAM, 4GB hdd.

http://bmalee.eu/~bma/

Image:Ben 32×32.png Positions Held

  2010–present — Honorary Member
  2009–2010 — Assistant Technical Officer
  2008–2009 — President
  2006–2008 — Secretary
  2005–2008 — Head Technical Officer
  2004–2005 — Secretary 

Course(s)

  2009–present — BSc (Hons) Computing and Software Development
  2005–2009 — BSc (Hons) Computing
  2004–2005 — BA (Hons) History 

About bma

The gothic broomstick Head Tech Officer, is in eternal war with Skippy.

Ben showed up about a month after Freshers' Fayre 2004, having decided he needed to get out more. He soon got elected as the new secretary, the previous incumbent (Tempy) having gone off in a huff some weeks previously. His main competition for this role was a beer glass in the Skiving Scholar, it was thought unfair that he must be given the position without any kind of democratic process.

At the AGM in February 2005, Ben successfully bribed his way into the position of Tech Officer, taking over from the soon-to-graduate Gemma Peter, part of his ultimate plan for world domination. It is a dirty lie that the boxen has had more problems since he took over than ever before, he's just unfortunate enough to have to deal with problems caused by Dave a few years previously. Honest.

The following year, despite wishing to give up the role of Tech Officer, Ben wound up being voted in as both Secretary and Tech Officer. For two years running.

In 2008, against his better judgement, Ben put himself forward for the position of President, which had been vacated by the soon-to-graduate Rich "MooseBlaster" Jeffery. Unfortunately, people actually voted for him, leaving him in the unenviable position of having to actually run the society.

Summer came, and Ben embarked on an industrial placement at Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Much time was spent working with JavaScript, despite specifically mentioning an aversion to web programming at the interview. Refactoring happened, often with extreme prejudice.

An uneventful year passed, in which he failed to get much at all done as President and was replaced by Drew at the next AGM. Come September, Ben was ready to take on his final year (at last!) with some trepidation, caused mostly by not having a project lined up yet. Last Sighting

Spends most of his time in his room, fiddling with his computers (especially if the alternative is actual work) and listening to The Sisters Of Mercy. His current projects include learning C++ and German, mucking around with Python, and installing Debian on as many computers as he can get his hands on.

Interesting Facts

Ben never blinks and eats nothing but one mouse a week, on Tuesdays.

He is a seasoned Fundie hunter.

Ben has a tendency to collect odd bits of hardware, including an 80286 laptop (circa 1988), an early PowerMac (circa 1995), a Sun workstation, and half a dozen Pentium-era PCs. He has very little free space. External Link

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