Lovely page, I enjoyed it lots. Especially this: “The first time I programmed a computer was in the fall of 1978 at LTHS, Lyons Township High School, in La Grange, IL. It changed my life. For a long time I couldn't think of anything else but programming computers, and it hasn't yet completely worn off.” Calms me down and gives hope. I started feeling like losing the programming spark is just behind the corner more and more during the past decade (working for money), yet decade and some before that was so exhilarating. But now I think, you've started 20 years before I was born!