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| Personal background |
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1969. Year of the moon landing, the year that Iron Butterfly got stuck at the airport and didn't play at Woodstock, the year they released the original Italian Job movie, the start of the Vietnam war, the year of the signing of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, Nixon was inaugerated, the Stonewall riot in New York signalled the beginning of the gay rights movement, Sennator edward Kennedy pleaded guity to leaving the scene of a fatal accident in Massachusetts, "Oliver!" won best picture at ther Accedemy awards, in Cambridge the first in-vitro fertilisation of a human female egg was performed, the development of the scanning electron microscope, the insecticide DDT was banned in US residential areas, that the Thoth tarrot deck was finally published ... and somewhere in a U.K. hospital, a screaming baby was carried along an otherwise quiet hospital corridor, proclaiming that the world had better watch out - I ... was alive! Yeeaah haaah haaah haaah haaaaaa......
Frequently of the oppinion that I can never lose my marbes, because I never had any to begin with, my computing career has been stuck in the doldrums and low paid areas of support because no one wants to employ me (sniff) but regardless I carry on with hobies that include being a published fiction author, a published photographer, a truck driver, a warehouse and food production line operative, a web designer, and lately back to my regular job as a mobile computer engineer. One day I'll get back to programming. In the mean time, I am comfortably employed in local government in Sussex where I am kept busy looking after the computer systems in various recreational establishments as well as being part of a stunningly great team looking after our buildings systems. The job doesn't pay great, but for the most part it is a joy to work there.
Currently running a precious Novell server, two Linux laptops and a Linux and two windows PC's. They are nothing special, but they keep on ticking and they take a licking, especially when I play Unreal Tournament :-)
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Is E.T. out there? Yes. E.T. will probably come down one night and drop in to a 7-11 for a dip and some nachos. The counter staff will probably think that haloween has come early and nothing will be said about it, beyond a stiff warning that E.T. shouldn't be out at this time of night without it's mother.
Yes, Humans should transmit a beacon. In fact, it surprises me that other races haven't already placed a beacon over Earth warning of the unprecidentially high ego ratio of its residents.
I have spare processing power when I'm not at home, so I turn on SETI when I'm not around. Its good to be helping others, and SETI is a project which is genuine in its intentions. I have a few simple machines crunching SETI as services, although I can guarantee that when I want to play Neverwinter Nights on my "power PC" (ahem! I know, it's only 2.3ghz, but let me have my dreams!) the client has to get kicked :-( |
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