(deep breath) I'm a half Austrian half Pakistani, British born, Canadian raised, California living
Senior Web Architect. :) I've been involved with technology since I was about 8 years old
I guess. It all started when the public school I was going to brought in those new
Radio Shack RTS-80s, I thought centepede was the most incredible game I've ever seen. :)

I've always had an interest for alien life, big fan of X-FILES, Star Trek,
Babylon 5, and all that... As well as the scientific side of things, watching with interest
the shows that Discovery and TLC have.

Professionally I design and architect web sites and web applications, specializing
in E-Commerce, Content Management, and Portals. Personally, I'm a 30 year old techno geek.
I love all kinds of electronics, big bass (three ten inch subs in my trunk), high action movies,
fast cars, techno/trance music, etc.... My website can be found at www.dopejam.com.

A friend of mine told me about SETI. At first I thought it was kind of futile because
I didn't realize the scope of the application. I had watched on Discovery
the science of it all with those huge radio telescopes. Then I took a look at
the SETI website and was surprised at the size of the community, that's when
I decided to get in on it. Plus the concept of distributed computing is fairly
cool. We all have spare CPU cycles, might as well put it to use.

Realistically I have better chances of winning a lottery then discovering non-natrually
created signals. But I honestly believe that there is alien life. Even if you use
extremely remote odds... I'm talking massively extreme... that there's another planet
capable of supporting life, just the sheer number of planets out there result in
hundreds of thousands of planets that are possible just in our galaxy alone. If we
can put all our spare CPU cycles to work, this is our only chance of finding
out if that possibility is a reality. It's worth doing just for the curiousity
alone.

I think it's definitely worth finding proof of alternate life. If there is,
they are probably already aware of us. Earth is a relatively young planet, so
odds are we're already being watched. Might as well know who's doing the watching.