20th of April 1966 was the day I was put amongst all the other homo sapiens on this planet I probably protested quite a bit, but who listens to kids .... Trying to find out how stuff works, as men like to do, I managed to break quite a bit of equipment in my teens and twenties. Okay, and thirties. In fact, its an ongoing project. Witnessed the home computer boom in the early eighties, did a lot of programming on them. By the early nineties, I managed to obtain a university degree in Computer Science. Hobby becomes profession and all that. Hardware became more than a hobby as well, gradually. At the end of 1999, I started my own little company called Windfall Engineering to develop and sell Viewfinder, a graphics card for the Acorn Risc PC. Did mostly freelance work thereafter. Im convinced that source code in C++ preferably ... can and should be a work of art. I like to craft it, to become efficient, elegant, accessible, bug free and easy to update. And love to see those qualities in other peoples source code. Over the years, I did learn not to go overboard to gain that last half percent, but occasionally I still have to keep myself from reviving and redoing an old piece of code that I know could be so much better. What else to tell ? Well, for relaxation, I like to cycle, listen to music, read books mostly SF of course, who am I to break a fine nerd tradition, watch movies and oftentimes old TV series, and play adventure and action games including the occasional 15+ year old BBC game. Oh yes, and I recommend the Playstation 3 Thanks mr. Sony, yes, that is the correct bank account ....

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