I was born in Vancouver BC, on march 31, 1972.  I have strong interests in computing, computer graphics, security issues and any indoor sports. :)

    Some programming languages I have had experience in are PASCAL, BASIC, C++ and  JAVA.  I have had extensive experience with DOS and windows.   Every upgrade my computer gets is done lovingly by no-one but myself, and currently I am running a pentuim 2-300 with 128megs of ram, 10 gigs of space, and a viper 550 3d accelerator.   Oh...  and I have a cablemodem now.  <phew>

And now, a little about me....

    I first started my computing interest with a venerable old TI-99/4a and quickly begged my parents to buy the upgrade cartridge so that I could have 'extended basic;, which allowed me to program much easier. (It also boosted the ram to a mighty 64k!)  I was very young, but was fascinated with how easily I could (sometimes) tell the computer what I wanted it to do.  Of course, it seldom worked quite the way I wanted, and the simple fact that saving things to cassette tape was a tedious process led to my disinterest in it. 

    After a time, I managed to convince my mom that taking computer lessons was a great idea.  She enrolled me in DOS 3.3 courses, and some BASIC programming too.  I was the youngest in the class by far, and I can remember feeling a little out of place with all the adults there.  These courses whetted my appetite, but without an x86 processor at home, I could use little of my knowledge, and I slowly forgot much of what I had learned. 

    Finally, in 5th grade, our elementary school got two brand new apple][ E's!  I was ecstatic, although the commands were slightly different from what I had been exposed to.  Sadly, it was basically a games machine, due to the lack of software that was provided, unless you count what my schoolmates brought in and copied.   However, I still fooled around with the boot loader code and managed to hack my first few passwords on it. :)

It would be many years later before I got back into computing...  Lack of a computer at home was a fact of life, so I simply found other ways to spend my time. Then, I had an offer to buy a 386-33 on a 'employee purchase plan' for $2500.00, and I went for it.   That was over 8 years ago...  and I have been busy learning ever since.