Gary Smith

I started with computers when I was around 15 years old (I’m 45 now). My first encounter was with an old teletype machine that had one of those old adventure programs on it. It went something like this… you hit ‘S’ to go south and it would type something like ‘You see the entrance to a cave…’. I can remember how marvelous I thought that technology was! Anyway, from that point on I was hooked. I go into all sorts of programming, repairing, diagnosing, building etc.

I’ll keep this part short … basically, computers were a hobby until 1995 when I started an ISP business and a network consulting business. The ISP business still runs from myspare room (dialup access and some local web hosting…I have 8 servers in there). In 2005 I decided to pull away from my consulting business and ‘work in my underwear’. Well..not exactly but you probably know what I mean. I moved my office back home and that’s where I’m writing this from.

Enough about computers. I’ve also played several musical instruments…violin and saxophone when I was at school and guitar for the past 20 years or so. I was in a few local bands when I was in my 20’s .. mainly playing 50’s rock and roll music. Nowadays I pick the guitar up every now and then .

I am a single parent with a 17 year old daughter who has lived with me for the past 7 years. I’ve always enjoyed being a parent and regret that I didn’t have more kids. My ex and I parted ways when my daughter was 1 year old and I’ve not had a partner since then.

My favourite bands, musicians singers etc are (or have been):

Tommy Emmanuel

Queen

Led Zeppelin

Anthony Warlow

Extreme