Why do I blog ...
Well, more to the point, who am I?
I'm an english computer engineer, in my mid-thirties currently living in Hampshire. A totally natural born computer geek.
A truncated run through my life would be ... started with a Sinclair ZX80 as a 12yr old, lucky me, and learnt its' equivilient of BASIC from troubleshooting program listings in the weekly Sinclair specific magazines. Next up was the Sinclair Spectrum and more debugging and programming. Those where the days, a 64k game took half an hour to load lol. Then skipped to the Commodore 64 (eek) and ultimately arrived at the Commodore Amiga 500. What a beast, linear address range (cor), it had a custom gfx chipset (Blitter) way before GPU was uttered by the chaps and chapettes at Nvidia and just rocked. Spent a long time coding 68000 Assembler language on that platform, and enjoyed every minute of it. Then was given a 286 by a friend and dropped the amiga in favour of Microsoft DOS and Turbo Pascal. And then my plans to develop an evil empire where set in motion, I changed my name to Bill Gates and ... ooops no that's not right ... Jumping forward several years the fun really started, and I got my first computing job supporting 15 users and a Novell 3.12 server which I managed to replace with Windows NT 4 (hoorah?). Then tried a rollout job deploying Windows 9x in a pharmaceutical company. That led in to a Desktop Engineering role for another pharmaceutical for a few years before I took the natural progression in to the server space within the same company. After just under 9 years of soaking up all that I could in both spaces, and getting tired of the scene, I moved in to a small group, still within the same company, as a contractor, managing SMS2003 for the EMEA region. That was probably one of the best decisions i've made in a long time. Such fun, the team was cool, the manager was cool, the technology was cool! the budget ran out, thus so did the job. Another bombshell arrived, me and the wife split up so I decided to move closer to London. Practically ten years as a contractor in the same company, thats rare :-)
I've dabbled with so much in the past, tried my hand at being a commercial game developer (nothing got published, did say tried), goofed around with tons of products and oddities, that I feel I have a satisified mind. I also count myself lucky in that I just enjoy playing with computers. Others switch their office PC off at night and that's it until the morning. Not me, I'm straight on my PC when I get home, either gaming (i'm an FPS fiend!) or soaking something or other up. Just like now, been for an interview today and after making a cup of nice english tea i'm straight on the computer. What a geek lol. So, that is essentially me. Eager to learn new stuff out of curiosity rather than planning a career track, friendly, and always on a natural high. One of the sweetest women I know recently said "you are so funny, and great company to be around". Yeah thats me.
So why do I blog?
I like sharing. Period. I try to keep in the spirit of my current technological focus, but It doesn't matter to me. If it's technical or non-technical, if it interests me then I blog about it. I hope that my posts interest at least some of you, and now that i'm blogging on the best Systems Management website, MyITForum Inc I feel even more fortunate.
Here's to many more wild and whacky, as well as serious, and technically tedious postings ;-)
Thanks Rod for creating this fine cradle to grow in :-)