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app103:
Welcome to the site catloversun.

Hi! I guess you could call me a "newbie",  :-\ but I hope you won't because I hate that word! :) lol  :P
-catloversun (April 23, 2007, 10:36 AM)
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'Newbie' is a much better word than 'n00b'.  :P

Besides...everyone is a newbie in the beginning. Nothing wrong with it.

gjehle:
uhm, hi there.
it's been quite a while since i signed up here (over a year already) and i've never found the time (*cough*) to write something here.
most of you only know me for the crap i post in the living room or my sarcastic comments here and there (or my contributions to mircryption/xchat)
there's some more info in my profile (yes, i'm lazy)

as to where i live, check this:

(yes, it's a frickin' island :D)

Dichotomy:
Hi everyone,

I'm relatively new to this board, but certainly not to computers and the web (ah, I remember the days of slip TCP connections and using NCSA Mosaic...).  Anyways, my name is Jason, and I'm 29 years old.  I've been using computers since my dad brought home an original IBM PC way back when. 

My area of interest has always been user interfaces and how people interact with technology, which is why my educational background is in Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction.  In my past jobs I've done a lot of mobile design and usability at Nokia and Qualcomm in San Diego.  Flash forward to now: I'm a user experience researcher (also called usability engineer) at Microsoft in Seattle, WA.  The program I work on is Windows Media Center.  Day in and day out, I'm running studies or visiting users in their homes and getting to see how real users (not the software engineers) use our program.  The difference can be quite striking at times!

So, there you have it.  :)

suleika:
So, since there was a invitation in the newsletter to post to this thread ......

I'm Gez, an opera singer.   English by birth, Irish by blood. Based in England (Greater London now) but posting from Berlin, where I am staying for 14 weeks, singing two productions in a row.  My singing career is going well but I've decided to move into directing operas during the next 10 years.  I love singing but I have the most fun using my brain, and directors do that all day (or at least they can if they choose to).

I got into computers rather late, despite Sinclair Spectrum experiences as a child, but I'm known in my business as a bit of a geek.  I made my own website and am capable of basic but useful troubleshooting when colleagues have computer woes.  I write the odd little AHK or Notetab Pro script (slowly and painfully).  I have AD(H)D, and since realising this (and starting medication) I've stopped obsessively surfing for tools to do my organising for me.  Now, instead, I am trying to organise myself .... but I still enjoy searching for tools to help me. 

Darwin:
Ah spit! emerald's avatar is a painting (or a portion of a painting?) by Salvador Dali.

Anyway, the courses I teach are first and second year and I have taught the Plains culture area in the past - fascinating stuff! But my area of specialisation is physical anthropology (as opposed to cultural anthropology and archaeology) the Neanderthals (so I'm on the wrong continent altogether!), who occupied Europe and the Middle East 130,000 to 28,000 years ago. I'm off to Belgium for five weeks in June and July to excavate a Neanderthal site so won't be around here much, if at all, during the summer. Getting pretty excited, too...

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