About Me

My first PC was a Commodore Vic-20. I liked it so much that I worked and saved every penny I had for an entire summer to buy a Commodore 64.

Just for old time sakes here are the technical specifications my old vic 20:

CPU: 6502A, 1 MHz
RAM: 5kb
ROM: 16kb
Sound: 3 voices plus white noise. external speaker driven by MOS 6522 CB2 pin)
interfaces: Cartridge Port; two joystick ports; composite video output; serial bus connector for floppy disk drive, printer, or other peripherals

The VIC-20's RAM was expandable with plug-in cartridges using the same expansion port as programs. RAM cartridges were available in several sizes: 3K (with or without an included BASIC extension ROM), 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K

The VIC-20 had proprietary connectors for program/expansion cartridges and a tape drive (PET-standard Datassette). It came with 5 KiB RAM, but 1.5 KiB were used by the system for various things, like the video display (which had a rather unusual 22×23 char/line screen layout), and other dynamic aspects of the ROM-resident BASIC interpreter and KERNAL (a low-level operating system). Thus, 3.5 KiB of BASIC program memory for code and variables was available to the user of an unexpanded machine.

Well that was over 20 years ago...and I still dig computers.

I have done many things in my professional career and today specialize on internet websites/web 2.0. I developed my first site in 1996 and have been working as a professional in the web sector for the past 11 years. I have built many websites myself, worked for agencies that developed websites, and now manage websites on behalf of a large international organisation.

These days I manage a team and run a large portal which keeps me very busy.... recently I implemented podcasting, blogs, RSS news syndication, website caching, etc.. Communities or social networking is an area which I find fascinating.

I started this blog to engage in conversations and discuss new media developments.

Ps. The picture on top is that of a Commodore PC which I had in my High School. They did not have a laptop model ;-)