Not much to report this week so I will share a story. Some of you have heard this story but many of you haven’t. For those of you who know me I’m sure you ask yourselves, “That Paul is so fascinating! How in the world did he become so good with computers and technology?” I know, I know sometimes I ask myself that same question. When did it all start? Well, I have been able to trace my fascination with computers back to a solitary incident in a computer lab at the university I attended.

When I was in college my major was Engineering Technology. That is basically the bastard step-child of Engineering. Anyway, we still had to take a lot of the same crappy pre requisite classes for our major. The bane of my existence was programming classes and I definitely had my share; C++, Fortran and Assembler just to name a few. One day while I was in the computer lab working on some stupid program (Probably “Hello World” or something equally as idiotic) I noticed this guy sitting across the aisle from me doing something way out of the box. One minute his screen was plain text like the rest of ours and the next minute it was filled with a full color picture of a naked woman. Well, my interest was piqued! After a short conversation with the guy I found out he was downloading the pictures from the Internet. After that I was spending a lot more time in the computer labs! I started teaching myself networking and all kinds of computer geek things. Before that chance incident can you believe I hated computers? And it’s all thanks to porn!!