user hagen <p>Finally... I got 'round to uploading my image. Yes, this <i>really is</i> Hagen. He just has me do the typing 8-)</p> <p>He's my beloved Great Dane aka Ch Telstadt Talk 'O the Town and he'll be 10 on 16th November 2003. Sadly a very good age for a Dane</p> <p>heh heh... last para just recently caused a ripple in the CB with some learned Monks - [ybiC], [dhoss], [tye] and others. "Am I the oldest Monk" they asked?</p> <p>I was born in the first half of last century - 1947 specifically. I've spent all but 3 months of my working life (beginning Nov 1967) getting paid to do things with and to (business) computers - or their early antecedants 8-).</p> <p>However, it's easy gathering age, you just avoid dying 8-); gathering skill and wisdom is something that requires a bit of effort, hence my continued avocation in the Monastery</p> <p>More recently...</p> <P>IDMS (OS/390) and Oracle (Unix&NT) DBA.</P> <P>Bought the camel book May 2000 (just missed 3rd edition, rats!) but didn't `get it'. Got Learning Perl from our library.</P> <P>Now have Perl in a Nutshell, Perl Cookbook, Programming the Perl DBI and Perl Debugged. Now I think I `get' a little of the Perl tao.</P> <P>Perl experience mainly limited to DBA/Sys Admin scripts. Have written (for money) remote monitoring suite for Oracle on NT, and a few other 'one-offs'.</P> <P>Avid lurker on beginners-digest. Fan of `japhy's' posts, despite the fact I've just found out he's about 1/3 my age! And I am looking out for his book.</P> 2006-04-09 21:11:21 1024 363860 285978 29 Adelaide, South Australia 10 on