35 at last count. Software developer. Motorsport addict, competing rather than watching. Alternative hobbies of rock climbing and photography.

First hobby leads to an intimate knowledge of car maintenance.

Darn this is tricky. If I say too much I'll blow my cover. I'm originally from the South Island, although I currently live in Wellington. I'm older than I look, but not as young as I feel. I work on the fringes of IT - meaning I look at things that others do rather than do anything myself. I've had a computer and been on the internet ever since I can remember. I watch far too much televison and far too many movies, and I have impeccable bad taste in my viewing habits. I'm also far too shy, and prefer to revel in my anonymity.

I'm 24 and work for a giant global IT megacorp. Living in Auckland but originally hail from the mean streets of Johannesburg. When my soul isn't being gobbled up at work I have a love of photography (and especially photography while travelling somewhere completely different) to keep me busy.

I'm going first ?? I'm a lurker, I've worked in IT for several years in analysis, programming, project management etc. Like many in my field I find it difficult to keep up with technology in my own field, much less with the various gadgets that keep appearing, and the new developments in just about eveything electronic. Keep up the good work - I find the blogs interesting and at times, useful!

I like this idea Luke, so I'm happy to share. I'm an occasional poster here (under my previously common name of 'David'), with my most verbose conversation arising when you had the blog post about the guy stung by Nintendo for pirating.

I am a 38 y/o software developer residing in Auckland, who is happily married with a wife and two beautiful girls. I have the envious position of contracting fulltime to a company based in the United States. This means that I work from home, and have freedom to take time of to attend important events whenever I like (such as my daughters performance at her school assembly this afternoon). It also means that I get paid in USD, so my actual income can be a bit of a roller coaster ride.

I have become an avid Facebook user recently, after making contact with some old friends thanks to it. I also have a blog (http://blogs.embarcadero.com/dclegg) which is pretty technical in nature, and would probably only appeal to other software developers. It has also been pretty quiet of late, but I do hope to change that.

My other passions in life include music, sports (watching, not playing), and I am also a mad keen PS3 gamer. As a result I spend a lot of my time hanging out at the Game Junkie blog.

I am an early retiree at 50 from the film and TV industry. I am now a volunteer budget advisor. I worked in the industry for 25 years as an editor and saw fantastic change, from huge 2" reel to reel machines to desktop/laptop edit suites. I enjoy mountain biking and road biking.

Though I use a computer all day to maintain a record of my client details and interactions and prepare quotes, I also have a casual & very amateur interest in computing and maintain a home network with a variety of computers (which I build) and media devices connected (about 11 currently) for my family, and it always has some issue that requires attention (either for improvement or firefighting). I have a Facebook account which I rarely use and only signed on to Twitter the other day to get Met Service tweets to see what it's like, so you'd probably classify me as a lurker! However I've used Skype pretty much daily since about 2004 to keep in touch with family. Oh - my original qualification was an electronics tech & I've hit my 50's, and my original ISP connection was through Actrix too far back too remember (maybe around 17 years ago at an annual subscription of in the order of a couple of hundred $ PLUS time - on dialup speed of a few kB/sec).

I've been a bad.. bad boy

Sure, I'll play. I'm 24 years old and based in the Wellington region. I work in the IT industry doing infrastructure-based operations and administration - I guess that's what you'd call it, as opposed to applications or software development. My father has been in the IT industry since I was born, so it was only natural that as I grew up I too would develop an interest for computers.

Primarily I'm into technology as it pertains to entertainment: I'm an avid gamer (PS3 in particular), and I'm a home theater enthusiast. This usually means that, when I'm not at work or spending time with the love, my lounge is my home. I used to be fairly creative - though admittedly I'm now probably out of touch with my video editing skills. Hopefully some day I'll be able to reconnect with that side; I guess I won't if I don't make time for it though. ;)

I'm also a bit of a jack-of-all-trades at music; I play guitar, piano/keyboard and drums (at varying degrees of success, probably consider drums as my main though).

Oh, and my favourite word in the whole world is 'geek'. I generally call everyone 'geek' and while initially they may take offense to it, when they find out I'm an actual geek they're inclined to take the comment a little more lovingly. :)

47 year old secondary school teacher, mostly web design. Interested in photography, dancing, gardening and painting (as in house-painting). Widower but enthusiastic father of two amazing teenage boys who know more about some aspects of IT than I do. Humbling.