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Well, I really don't like these 'OMG HAI GUYZ!!11!!0ne' threads, but as I've been lurking for so long, and these seem to be the norm here with 120+ pages of welcome threads - here goes nothing!
My name's andy, and I'm from Sydney, Australia.
I'm old enough to know that baud rate and bps are technically two different things, and young enough to destroy anyone who challenges me to a tequila shot rally.
I have a certain dislike of people who can't differentiate between their/they're/there, your/you're, were/we're/where, however I have been known to use 'yeah, no ...' in day to day conversation.
Online experience? I've been toying around since way back in the old BBS days, and used to love wasting hours on Compuserve before they also provided www access, after which I promptly jumped to a proper ISP due to an incident involving falling asleep at the keyboard and a stupidly large bill arriving in the mail. I've seen the web grow from there, and can pick up most languages to a level to be able to understand what is going on, but despise coding myself.
A geek by trade, I work for a large multinational on high end hardware (think hundreds of gigs just for a memory cache) powering most of the Fortune 500, debugging stuff down to 32kB chunks.
Domain wise, my first purchase was in 1998, and while I still have that first domain, I sold nearly all of my others purely to fund my sometimes ridiculous drinking benders. I'm finally back in the game now, more so as a side project I can get my teeth into when I have time to kill while not on shift.
If I can provide some sort of value on NP that someone will benefit from - mission accomplished for me.
My name's andy, and I'm from Sydney, Australia.
I'm old enough to know that baud rate and bps are technically two different things, and young enough to destroy anyone who challenges me to a tequila shot rally.
I have a certain dislike of people who can't differentiate between their/they're/there, your/you're, were/we're/where, however I have been known to use 'yeah, no ...' in day to day conversation.
Online experience? I've been toying around since way back in the old BBS days, and used to love wasting hours on Compuserve before they also provided www access, after which I promptly jumped to a proper ISP due to an incident involving falling asleep at the keyboard and a stupidly large bill arriving in the mail. I've seen the web grow from there, and can pick up most languages to a level to be able to understand what is going on, but despise coding myself.
A geek by trade, I work for a large multinational on high end hardware (think hundreds of gigs just for a memory cache) powering most of the Fortune 500, debugging stuff down to 32kB chunks.
Domain wise, my first purchase was in 1998, and while I still have that first domain, I sold nearly all of my others purely to fund my sometimes ridiculous drinking benders. I'm finally back in the game now, more so as a side project I can get my teeth into when I have time to kill while not on shift.
If I can provide some sort of value on NP that someone will benefit from - mission accomplished for me.
