Born in London way back before the interwebs was conceived.
Studied Mechanical Engineering to Doctorate level specializing in renewable energy systems, during which time I discovered the main frame computer with terminals housed in a small building, massive disc drives and walk to the print room to collect reams of paper.

Eventually I decided I needed to live the lifestyle rather than study it.

My wife, plus a 6 month old child and myself, moved up to the Highlands of Scotland to a remote, boat only access, wild place where we lived off grid, grew trees, looked after animals, ran a ferry and postal service, and made 3 more children.

During this time I discovered dial up internet and got excited about the advent of Windows 3.1, as well as a new Macintosh Classic that appeared at our local, self run school.

15 years of that and we needed a change.

New Zealand beckoned so we emigrated and started a small Internet development company from our front room providing web services to local small businesses
Working from home allowed me to be more involved in our kids as we had been in Scotland.
My wife had the design flair and I had the geek stuff so together we were a perfect match and produced a lot of websites over the years.
WordPress.org became our platform of choice and eventually our whole company put it's energy behind WordPress.

When a new adventure was required I applied for a job with Automattic and surprised myself by getting it!!

So here I am, the kids are fledged and doing well so we sold up our house and are now back in a truck, with a yurt and a good Internet connection, looking for a piece of land of our own from which to spread happiness and enjoy our lifestyle.