I have been interested in computers since the 5th grade when, after many many months of mowing lawns in the hot Florida sun, I was able to purchase my very own Commodore VIC20.  Shortly thereafter I  just had to upgrade to the Commodore 64.  The funny thing was that the 5.25" floppy drive was around $400, more then twice the price of the Commodore 64.  I think my wholesale price today on 3.5" floppy is about $13.  In middle school I took all the computer courses that were offered.  I remember copying disks for the Apple IIe and IIc using the highly illegal and much sought after Disk Muncher 1.0 and playing games like Karatica and Spy Hunter until the early morning hours.  I participated in and won a  number of computer programming competitions and went to computer camp and all that nerdy stuff.  Then in high school, I sorta got bored with my C64 with its limited programming capabilities (do you remember PEEKS and POKES?) and so I would play with the Apple II's after school in the computer lab.  Fast forward to today, and after working for few companies and always ending up in the IT department, I think its time I do a little computer work for myself in the form of this web page.  People often ask me what my favorite computer is.  I don't have one, I recommend you build your own.  That way you get what you really want and don't have it pre-loaded with 10 Gigabytes of useless crap.  I do however have some favorite computer web sites, and here they are:

32bit.bhs.com  Great Share Ware and Free Ware
www.acdsee.com Great, fast pic viewer
www.astalasvista.com  Great for cracks-n-hacks
www.cray.com F' Microsoft, buy a REAL computer! 
www.jasc.com Makers of Paint Shop Pro, a great pic utility
www.loboworks.com My new computer company
www.lview.com Good pic view/converter
www.pcmag.com Great (mostly unbiased) PC Reviews
www.sun.com I wish these people would rule the world
www.tomshardware.com Great hardware info
www.woz.org The Grand-Daddy that started it all.

Commodore VIC20

Apple IIe

Cray SV1

The new Sun