Guitar-playing computer programmer from the UK but living in Norway. The guitar came first (in about 1963), then Norway (1971) and finally computers (1972).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I have to believe that there is someone out there, it would defy any kind of statistical argument for there not to be. Whether we will ever be able to find them is another matter but I'd like to think that we will. And SETI is one way to try. Apart from anything else I don't like to think that my computer(s) are not contributing what they can while they have nothing better to do...
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.