10: Print "Hello world!"
20: Goto 10

In traditional style this was the first program I ever wrote, it was on the ZX81 and I was 9 years old.

Sadly my programming skills never went much beyond that although I've managed to fumble my way into various coding jobs from mainframe assembler stuff up to the interwebs. Now I do databasey things.

At the same tender age I discovered gaming. This was when we had to type games in from magazines that had listings like this: When games took effort!

Since then things have come along way. On my gaming journey I discovered a love of single player RPGs - ahhh the days of Dungeon Master. At some point in 1999 I discovered Everquest and that was the start of a love affair with online roleplaying games.

Since then I've wandered through Everquest 2, raided in Worlds of Warcraft, Pottered in Lord of the Rings Online, meandered through Guildwars and sauntered along the paths of many other games to a greater or lesser extent. In almost all of these journeys I have been accompanied by my significant other who is equally adoring of online RPGs.

The current main squeeze is Age of Conan where I play on Aquilonia and Hyrkania (EU RP servers)... At least, when the lag is bearable. Like many others I'm suffering consistant 10k lag spikes which sadly makes the game unplayable at times.

So thats me.