Interesting reading that's for sure!
Let's see, I've been to college for everything from Math and Comp to English and Psych. Finally landed a degree in Accounting which is what I do now, but I do it from the systems side of things kind of being the go between for all the accountants to the systems that are supposed to give them all the information they could ever want. Very large linked spreadsheets, which can be adapted to any change in base information or logic are my specialty and I can literally bring the strongest single cpu machines generally available today to their knees. I also do local (finance folks) tech support, pulling machines apart as needed and showing them how to get their machines to do their will. When not doing that, I'm working on Security and Exchange Commission filings and monthly/quarterly/annual financial statements and related stuff. Computers are "more" of a hobby that augments my career, and when it gets too thick I either consult the experts (and what a bunch of them you folks are), or I send a team of experts to work on getting back to me with an answer in a week or month.
Home fun includes, tinkering with PCs for performance, and online gaming of the EQ/Daoc/Wow variety. There are practically no places anywhere that test what happens to a machine when its trying to run 3 programs, an online game, and maintain an ADSL feed at the same time. I can tell you what happens to them isn't pretty.
All in all, pretty boring stuff and I am humbled by the presences in these forums.
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Memory is the first thing to go
Age 37
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