I live in Ontario, Canada. Computers first became attractive to me when I was 5 years old, and my uncle let me play Tunnels of Doom with him on a Texas Instruments computer. I later stumbled across the Tim Sweeney shareware program by name of ZZT, and became interested in programming games. I didn't realize that what I was doing was called "programming"; all I knew was that I wanted to make epic fantasy adventure games, and the 200 page manual I'd printed out on my dot matrix printer was going to teach me how to do that. I became interested in gopher during a stressful period which sent me seeking live BBSes for comfort. Something there tipped me off to gopher, which I'd always been curious about, and now here I am. Please email me at zot@sdf.org if you'd like to comment on anything I've written. I'd love to hear from you.