Coffs Free and Open Technology Network

Quick Bio

From promising nerdly beginnings behind the rubbery keyboard of a ZX Spectrum, hacking games like Bomber (written in BASIC) and writing my own adventure games, involving a healthy dose of toilet humour - I instead resorted to a cornucopia of activities in various countries and in various states of poverty/drunkeness. Years passed and after some time racing round London delivering soon to be digitized content to busy yuppies I decided my erstwhile careers had room for another. The next career, I decided, would involve a desk which would not collide with London Black Cabs.

Well that is sort of how I started and after a few bumps, babies and an emigration I ended up working with computers in Brisbane. That was 12 years ago and here we are on the Internet, you and me. Now I am extremely elderly with a brain condition which causes me to start fibbing when writing 'about me' columns. I currently work in a deep underground bunker in Sawtell, NSW designing Quantum Porque Controllers for the little known Sawtellian Spaceship manufacturer and Pork Supplier, "BigzinSpace"... A fascinating branch of rocket science, Porcine Propellant.

You may well be wondering why on earth the well respected Coffs Free and Open Technology Network has let me join their illustrious ranks? A good question, easily answered - you see I agree with the 'Krazy', principles espoused here. To save you clicking the link let me give you, my internet dwelling friend, my own version, it is much stupider...

"I just bought this damn computer for too much damn money and now they tell me I have to double the price to activate all this dumb software! Aaargh, and this dumb software is worse than the old stuff! Aaargh!
Maybe I should support Free Open Source software, It'll be free, as long as I bring beer, and I won't have to buy a whole new computer every eighteenth months... er unless I want to."

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um ... I might update this a bit later... there are a couple of minor errors - but it is time for my therapy...

Ruben