ShelterIt Real Name:  Alexander Age:  A bit more than yesterday. Resides:  Canberra, Australia Occupation:  Coffee-drinker and project mangler

Favourite website:
BlogLines.com

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Dune by Frank Herbert

Favourite application, game, or program of all time:
Eclipse 3.1
 
What are you playing and working on right now:
A thesaurii lookup-based search repository using all XML goodness with AJAX.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A macro picture of a fly.

What's so special about your computer:
It doesn't compute.

How many computers do you have:
One work computer desktop 2GHz and a laptop 1.6GHz, nothing special.

What was your first computer:
ZX Spectrum 16k.

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
Monty Mole!!!!

Geekiest moment of your life:
Proposing to my wife over internet.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
Umm, right now?.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Eh, pretty much all the time, even in front of most geeks.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Wouldn't have a clue; too many

If you were a computer program,  you would be: why:
An email application; all the stuff you'll know.

What is your favourite quote:
"Life is not a problem to solve, but a puzzle to play."

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Being a family man, fixing the house and reading (non-technical) books and listen to bucketloads of baroque music.

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):
1607, Mantua Court, premiere of Monteverdi's 'Orfeo', and I'd bring a recording device! (the opera is lost, apart from fragments).

Alexander, who challenges you to visit http://shelter.nu (his site) and http://tmiga.org (his Topic Maps interest group), has an obsession with XML and semantically rich data mixed with an ever great obsession for baroque music. Alexander not only knows what Be OS is, you has an opinion about it.