About
I’m just another geek from Niagara Falls, Canada. I work in the IT field for a small-medium sized charity that runs programs mainly revolving around career counseling-type programs.
I’m a pretty big enthusiast of computers and have been ever since… well, pretty much forever. My computing life began with a family-owned C64 (Commodore 64) around the age of 4-6, we then also got an Atari 130xe eventually these machines became archaic and my Mother had become the computer site-administrator for the school she was a teacher at. This was great, my Mother brought home the Unisys ICON server and a workstation home every summer that we got to use. These machines were then replaced with 386 class computers. Soon my desire for better and faster computers began to out-pace the computers my Mother had access to, after saving for over 2 years, when I went into grade 9 I finally had enough money to purchase my own PC, a custom built (not by me) 486. Eventually with like-minded friends I discovered the world that some would call “before the internet”, they were known as BBSs (Bulletin Board System), these were essentially servers that people ran that people could connect by dialup modem (Mine was a Zoltrix ISA 14.4 baud modem - worst component I have ever purchased in my life). On these systems were very early versions of things you see on the internet today, we had Bulletin Boards (Forums), FidoNet (E-Mail), Multi User Dungeons (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), BBSs also offered download-able software, primarily ShareWare. From the days of my 486 until today I have mostly stuck with PC hardware and I don’t think I have ever bought a “complete computer” ever since, its been one part upgrade after another that has gotten me to today. Though I have stuck my hand in some other waters so to speak and have a small collection of non-PC hardware which includes a Sun SPARCstation 10, 20, UltraSPARC 1, and an IBM RS/6000 (This server I actually still use, but its really just for the purpose of uniqueness).
There are a lot of topics in computers that I have a lot of interest in. They tend to always focus around “Whats New” and “Things That Are Different and Interesting”. I am also very much into integration type challenges, things that integrate components in ways that they weren’t really the original designers ideas are always very interesting to me.
I’m constantly doing everything I can to learn more, I have a big appetite for knowledge. I learn best from practice and being faced with challenges that I have not faced before and having to work my way through them. I’m always up for a new challenge… think you have one for me? email me, I’d love to hear it.
