Yeah, I like computers & electronics & all that. Got my first little computer in 1983, and never really looked back.

For a couple of years my job entailed building and running GIS labs - the first, for the anthropology department at University of Maryland College Park was fairly basic, running a dozen clients off a campus server. Basic windows stuff: nice enough, they worked, but nothing fancy.

My next job was at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay - this was much sweeter, building a network on campus, with eight Silicon Graphics 330 workstations. The lab also has a pretty funky 4'x5' digitizer, a scanner, a cd-burner, and so on. It cooks, generally. It was running NT 4.0. I can't even remember what the server was - ain't that silly? We were running Debian Linux on it, which worked nicely (and Mandrake Linux as an alternative OS on one system so we could use some of the remote sensing software on it via the campus CRAY).

Outside of that, I've used lots of techie software, being a GIS kind of guy: ArcView and Arc/Info, MapInfo, GeoMedia, and so on.

While not officially a computer tech any more, I still play. We put CAT5 through the house, since we were re-doing all the wiring anyway, and I'm putting together the com-room in the basement, complete with bix-blocks. We have a router that gives wifi to the house, and adjacent street, though I haven't noticed any war-chalking. Anyhoo, there you are for now: I am geek, hear me roar.

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