user jdtoronto Born and educated in Melbourne, Australia. Originally trained as electronics & radio engineer. Subsequently studied biomedical engineering, mathematics and then physics. Loved working on high resolution radar and meteor scatter communications. Lived and worked in Europe, UK & North America during the 70's before returning to Australia. <p> Been programming since Fortran in the 60's. Worked in various Assemblers, BASIC, PASCAL, C and dialects of BASIC before discovering Perl in the early 90's (just before Perl 5 became common-place) and fell in love all over again. <p> I spend most of my time working on Win32 based applications written purely in Perl/Tk with a LOT of network access code. Apart from that? I still do some electronics hardware design and small manufacturing of products in niche markets. <p> Now in my 50's, married with an 11 year old daughter and living in Toronto where the winters are great and the summer is too humid, but at least I can go sailing to cool down. <p> My XP graph: <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=PlotChartImage_VH&nodeid=266955">is here</a> 2012-08-03 15:24:21 10332 360269 900 Toronto, Canada America/New_York 70