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My Interests:
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Music Section
I have been interested in music since I was 4/5 years old, growing up to the likes of
Oasis, The Prodigy and other popular music, but in 1994 I became interested in a different type of music: Hip-Hop.
My love for hip-hop was sparked off by the introduction of Brooklyn rapper The Notorious B.I.G. to the stage.
I was so impressed by Biggie's flow and style that had to discover more of this style of music. From here I
discovered the lyrical talents of Nas, the upbeat rhythms of A Tribe Called Quest, the perfect mix that is De La Soul
and many more.
In my opinion, 1995 was the best year hip-hop ever witnessed. Mobb Deep dropped "Shook Ones Part II" and "Survival
of the Fittest", two of the rawest tracks ever produced. Biggie released "Big Poppa" and "One More Chance", aswell
as colloborating with Junior M.A.F.I.A. on "Get Money", 2Pac hooked up with MC Breed to do "Gotta Get Mine", Outkast
recorded the record "Players' Ball", which in my opinion is still their best song to date. 1995 was what caused me
to become enthralled by hip-hop music, a love which still stands strong today.
Computers Section
My love for computers began when I made my First Holy Communion in school. With the money
I received from the day, I bought an Amstrad 6128, which was very hi-tech at the time and was acclaimed because
it used a disk drive in place of the previously used tape drives. The difference between the two was that a disk may
take up to 10/15 seconds to load, whereas the tape could take anywhere up to half an hour. Through a contact my
Dad had I was able to get my hands on hundreds of games for the Amstrad, which got me hooked onto its usage. I
began programming the games for which the code was listed at the back of the manual and it was right then I knew
that computers would become an important aspect of my life in the future.
After this, my father purchased a 386 machine with a whopping 4 megs of RAM and a 50mb hard disk. It was cool, it
ran Windows 3.1, but we usually used DOS 6.2 as Windows was a bit sluggish. The machine acquired a virus via a
magazine's cover disk and this allowed me to mess around with re-installation of operating systems and systems
software. We then moved on to a 486DX machine, which we had through the whole Pentium/Pentium MMX life cycle, and
it wasn't until the release of the Pentium II that we finally upgraded.
Since then I've had several different machines: the Pentium II 350, my own PII 450, a PIII 600, a K6-II 500 which
I built myself, a PIII 800 laptop and now I own a P4 2.66GHz laptop. All machines had plenty of RAM for the time period,
usually 256mb, and my current laptop has 512mb. I also have a fine collection of peripherals: a digital camera, a USB floppy
drive, a USB SD card reader, USB trackball, USB sound card, USB MIDI device, USB printer, Music Jukebox (Creative Nomad
30GB), and more.
My experience with computers doesn't simply entail owning a computer, however. I have been experienced in HTML (now XHTML)
since 1994. I am proficient with most web technologies, including CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Flash, PHP, Apache
Web Server, MySQL, JavaScript and a bit of Perl. Aside from Web Design, I have experience with various operating
systems: DOS 5/6.2/6.22, Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP, Linux (all distros and versions), FreeBSD (all versions), OpenBSD 2.2
and NetBSD. I have also experimented with BeOS and QNX. I have a tiny bit of knowledge in programming languages like
C, C++ and Python. This year I have learned a great deal of Visual Basic, which has furthered my understanding of
programming in general.
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