I got my Computer Science degree at the University of Manitoba. I did two and a half years of programming in medical research followed by twenty-nine years at Manitoba Hydro (electric utility). Most of that was spent on doing development and maintenance on an AGC/SCADA (real-time programming/process control) system that controlled the province-wide electric grid. The last ten years was taken up writing glue applications, system maintenance and monitoring applications, providing 24x7 application and desktop support and maintaining our Microsoft SQL Servers, and other Windows servers.I have programmed in FORTRAN (mostly), APL, PL/1, Cobol, Lisp, SNOBOL, ALGOL, Assembler (several flavours), C, C++, VB, vbScript and more recently, Python.I am married with two grown children and a most beautiful wife. I am currently retired (and loving it).