
EMAIL harvan75
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ANDREW HARVEY: (aka dalek,
harvan75). Age 45 (2003), of Perth Western Australia. Married with
two sons (18 and 15).
I have been involved in Atmosphere since just after its first
beta release, and been writing for the Atmosphere Users Own
Newsletter since Edition 1 (18 months now). My other interests
include:
1.) a fairly significant involvement with the WA State Emergency
Service as a volunteer training officer;
2.) writing Science Fiction (so far with only 1 short story
published many years ago but I’ve now got an editor from a local
publisher interested enough in one of my manuscripts to work with me
through three drafts);
3.) establishing a garden for the new house (not easy through an
Australian summer); and
4.) studying for my Masters in Criminal Justice (don’t ask).
Been involved with computers since pre-IBM PC days - mainly as a
word-processing tool. My first computer was a Microbee (CPM
operating system) followed by a Nimrod (MS DOS) - both Australian
manufacturers. I came to the Internet relatively late (1999, 8 years
after the release of WWW by CERN), when I finally bought an IBM
Aptiva, and I can still remember the frustration of trying to get
either IE, or Navigator to log me on for the first time. For the
last three years we’ve been building or buying a new computer
every year, and am presently running 3 on a wireless network, with
the laptop supplied by work making up an occasional fourth. Times
have certainly changed, and while the kids blame me if they lose an
internet connect for 5 minutes, I’m still pleasantly surprised
that anything works.
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