SO WHO ARE YOU?
Since 2005 I’ve been a full-time pen-for-hire, with words spattered across outlets like APC, Atomic MPC, Australian Macworld, Desktop, Hyper, Player, Rolling Stone, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Courier Mail, The Age, and news.com.au, along with other tech-related trade and business magazines. In 2007, I was the launch Editor on the Australian edition of Gizmodo. I’ve also managed to pick up a few awards — Best New Technology Journalist, 2004; Best Consumer Technology Journalist, 2006; Best Games Journalist, 2007.
Going WAY back my first computer was a TRS-80 CoCo 2. Mmm… datasettes… It was then a long wait (and much lust for the Amiga 500) before landing my first PC: a 386DX40. First on the block to break the 100MB HDD barrier with that one. Then to a PI-150, then PIII-500, then a ’switch’ to a G4. Now as a tech journo I taste more machines than 10-year-old me ever dreamed of. For the rubberneckers, my main machine is an Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, with a test/gaming PC running a Q6600 and dual-booting XP/Vista.