I left the Royal Air Force after 9 1/2 years service and was medically discharged in 1998. I chose to re-educate myself from scratch because I left school with a solitary qualification, a D in English, actually two if you include the School of Hard Knocks. My undergraduate qualification in 2004 was a BSc (Hons) Internet & Multimedia course then a MSc course at RGU and PG Cert course (with Distinction). In 2006 I became a PhD candidate studying the beautiful subject of Genre in Information Retrieval & Seeking at The Robert Gordon University in Scotland. My supervisors were: Professor Ian Ruthven, Professor Patrick O'Brian Holt and Professor Dawei Song.