Well, if you have gotten this far and acually are interested in finding a little bit about me I might as well not dissapoint you.

The largest island in the southern hemisphere (Australia) is my tectonic plate (country) of residence.

So far I lived for 31 cycles of the the Sun (31 years old).

I'm a bit of a computer nut and diagnose, fix, network and occaisionally destroy (because of old age and a healthy amount of vengance)the silicon half-wits we all call computers.

I fight medieval style in a group called the SCA (www.sca.org...shameless plug)

I like capturing moments of time and light (photography).

I intend to build a tower in the corner of my room of old desktop computers painted black (The Monolith...insert 2001 space odessey theme music) without any monitors or keyboards or mice (mouses. I will administrate them remotely and get them all to run....you guessed it...SETI!

I hope ET life exists, it would definately give Mankind as a whole (religions, relation to the universe, our galactic address etc) something to think about.

"...hello..erm..universal operator? Yes i'd like to place a collect call to Alpha Centauri, yes thank you.......Hello Mum? Could you give me a lift home?..."

We may discover ET life when we receive a calling card from an alien selling industial vacuum cleaners...

"...Goood ectalix to you huuuman, I was wondereing if yoo woold be interested in a demonstration of the "Planet Cleaner 2000". A revoluutionary cleaning system that...excuuse me?...no, no yoo dont get free steak knives. Ooh I see yoo read! Well have I got a book for yoo! It's called "How to serve Mankind"...no it's not a guuide for selfless acts...no, nothing religous either, it's a recipe book..."

Benifits and dangers of discovering ET life...hmm...read the above.

I think we should set up a beacon to say "Hey we're here!", but the neighbors might complain about the noise.

"...Goood ectalix to you Huuman, Could yooo possibly turn that radio down?..."

I run SETI@home to give these slack computers something to do while they are turned on, and how much fun it would be to to find ET life.

"...Look Ma I've foound an Alien! They want to know if they can borrow a cup of suugar, they alsooo say to tell Dad that their "Planet Cleaner 2000 doesn't work..."

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Yours,

Tarrith Do'Urden

The Vogon

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And remember seven times nine equals forty two.