About Me
I live on an island, Gabriola, about a twenty minute ferry ride from
Nanaimo, British Columbia. I moved here in 2005 from Saskatchewan. I don’t think
I’ve ever regretted the move. However irritating the ferry and power outages might
be, they really are minor compared to the challenges experienced elsewhere.
I typed my first line of code on a Commadore Vic 20 (with a whopping 5 KB of memory
and a tape drive) back in the early eighties sometime. My brother and I used to
copy games out of magazines. I really only had a vague sense of what I was doing
at time. In fact, it wasn't until several years later, while learning C, that I
started to answer the countless questions that so harried my ealier attempts to
write my own material. Today, I develop primarily using Microsoft technologies,
ASP.NET, WCF, WPF, ect. My current focus, well, for several years already, is C#,
an object oriented language syntactically similar to C++ and Java, languages I programmed
in previously (and rarely still do). The transition all the way through has been
a relatively painless one. Of course it is virtually impossible to write anything
in just one language these days. Others like, SQL, Perl, HTML, XML, XSL, and JavaScript
just to name a few, help fill in the gaps.
I have many interests, more than I can possibly pursue in the depth I would like.
Technology obviously stands out among them. Others include: history, politics, biochemistry,
biology, astronomy, and physics. I'm a bibliophile. I even sleep with my books.
Perhaps not surprisingly, almost all of them are non-fiction. I have a two parrots,
an Eclectus Parrot name Zeke (the Beak) and a Triton Cockatoo name Tia. Both talk
(one like a sailor). I also have a German shepherd named Tielo (Bonehead is my preferred
name for him however). His sworn enemy is a squirrel that raids the bird feeders
for easy pickings. While it would seem that Squirrel has a few I.Q. points on Bonehead,
they are all a bright and entertaining lot for the most part. My life would certainly
be less eventful, and quiet, without them.