I guess I should introduce myself to the internet.
well, hello, my name is Mark and like many people who blog I work in the IT industry. My earliest memory of operating a computer would of been the Atari with the strange function keys, I can remember sitting in my brothers room while he was either programming or playing random games, it wasn’t long after that when my brother got the Amiga 500, this is where I familiarized myself with computers and got given a copy of AMOS to learn how to program with..
The first bootable application I wrote was to test joysticks and make sure all the directions and buttons worked, lame, yeah maybe, but I was in the 4th-5th grade when I done this and was rather proud of myself at the time. I also picked up on how to use the action replay card on the Amigas, which basically intercepted the CPU and we could directly access the memory space, this was fantastic for finding the memory location where your lives are kept in games, this sort of reverse engineering had fascinated me.
I first accessed the internet back around 1994-95 using an amiga 4000, with netscape navigator to surf yahoo.com. Damn, if only I registered a few domains back in those days, I could retire now just by holding on to them, i wonder what google would of been called if that was already taken.
Anyway, life moves on slowly but surely, I may one day fill in the gaps between then and the present, but to sum up till today, I’ve now been programming/sysadmin/networking and security as a profession which keeps things interesting, and I am hoping to use this blog to capture bits and peices that inspire me to keep going in IT, and jot down anything else that’s on my mind.
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