Most of this time was spent bouncing around the Australian Outback in four wheel drive vehicles installing and maintaining remote Automatic Weather Stations. Not a computer to be seen :)

In 1995 I discovered the internet, and that was the beginning of the end of my career in meteorology :)

I eventually worked up the nerve in 1999 to chuck it in, so I resigned and went looking for a job in IT. Found a position with an IT company based in Sydney, installing broadband solutions in five star hotels. This eventually led to a relocation to Singapore, where I've been for the past 3.5 years.

These days I manage a Network Operations Centre, looking after a network of around 800 servers spread all over the globe. It's fun :)

As far as Perl and programming goes, I'd have to say I'm just an enthusiast. Although it's not really my job, I love finding ways to use Perl in our workplace for all sorts of stuff.