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Geek Of The Day: Jake E-mail
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Jake

Real Name:  Andy
Age:  37
Resides:  Portsmouth, UK
Occupation:  Company Director (Guess that makes me a stiff!)



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Favorite website(s):
www.coolhomepages.com, www.snopes.com

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Lost 

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
So many!

What are you playing and working on right now:
Developing a PHP Content Management System and e-commerce package;  planning to take over the world.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
This machine has an Audi A3 wallpaper but no sceensaver.

What's so special about your computer (room):
They're all special to me.

How many computers do you have:
2 PCs running Windows, 1 PC running Linux and an iPaq 4700

What was your first computer:
A ComX 35 (Quickly followed by a Commodore 64)

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
On the ComX 35, a game called Worms.  I can still remember the tune 23 years later!
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Geekiest moment of your life:
I ran a BBS many years ago where you downloaded at 150 bits per second - note no kilo or mega, just bits.
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
Me a geek?

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
More than that, they actually expressed a wish to die.  But DNS *is* interesting!

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Probably seeing wire wrap disk controllers and core memory boards in the Science Museum in London and realising that I still fixed them. This was a few years ago though.

 What is your favourite quote:
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
The game Tron because the film was so cool in it's day.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Doesn't happen enough to worry about.

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
The day I met my first wife.  An axe.

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(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)

Jake, who suggests you visit www.redcatmedia.net, watches films on TV with his laptop on his lap connected to the internet wirelessly so he can look up stuff on IMDB. All Jake needs now is a second machine next to his TV to record TIVO and provide him with an up-to-date TV guide.
 
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