I love technology and always have. When I was 11 years old, I tore apart my father`s tape recorder, fixed it, then put it back together. Apparently seeing the potential, or maybe it was just fortune, that same father acquired a computer when I was 12. He says it was his, but it wasn`t. Not really. I`d already been introduced to a Commodore Pet at school, and the TI/99 dad brought home was a treat. It had COLOR! I started with BASIC (line numbers and all), then really got into the hardware side of things for several years. I was still working with the OS side a lot because DOS was fickle to configure. That was never more true than when applications started needing more than 512k to run. We could put the RAM in the system, but that doesn`t mean DOS could access it. Along came a memory manager, and my batch scripting skills took on epic proportions. Programming and math have always come to me pretty naturally. I`m not certain why. Neither of my parents were involved with either discipline and were not technically inclined. It took years to convince them to get a newer computer back in the 486 days. I`ve never really mastered any one language, though I`m pretty good with JavaScript and C#. Ruby is something I worked a little bit with about five years ago, I`ve done a little playing around with PHP, and I looked at Python about 15 years ago. The fundamentals are there, though, and I`ve yet to run into something I couldn`t solve. ©