Jaruzel.com

Who is Jaruzel/Matt Owen?

I'm not that interesting, so I feel the best way to summarise me is to, umm, list it all in summary format...

bullet.gif Born in the 1970s. Younger than Kylie Minogue, but older than Christina Aguilera.
bullet.gif I have dark hair (receding). It used to be long, but now it's short (due to the distinct lack of follicles).
bullet.gif I stopped growing many years ago, and have been holding steady at 5 feet, 11 inches tall. I do believe however, that I will start shrinking before too long.
bullet.gif I have a daughter. She's great.
bullet.gif I am married. She's great too.
bullet.gif I am one of the best IT Consultants on the planet. No, Seriously. If I don't know the answer to something within IT, then it's not worth knowing.
bullet.gif I read and occasionally post on Slashdot.
bullet.gif I read The Register, Engadget, and the BBC Technology Pages.
bullet.gif I learnt to code on a ZX81. Yes, it did have a wobbly 16k RAMPack.
bullet.gif I program in variety of languages, but have settled on Visual Basic (.NET) for the bulk of my coding because it's easy, and I'm lazy.
bullet.gif I am an ex-IRC addict, having wasted many years of my life talking about nothing in general.
bullet.gif I used to play MUDs, most notably Shades (When it was part of Prestel/Micronet in the pre-Internet days).
bullet.gif I am picky as to whom I consider friends.
bullet.gif I don't like the English culture (even though I am English)
bullet.gif I watch Sci-Fi. Not all of it because most of it is rubbish. So in fact, I watch QUALITY Sci-Fi. I wish there was more of it.
bullet.gif I tinker with computers endlessly; There is always something new I want to build/create/program.
bullet.gif I rarely finish anything I start.
bullet.gif I do not tolerate Boring or Stupid people.
bullet.gif I am very emotive.
bullet.gif I have made many bad decisions during my life. I regret only some of them.
bullet.gif I would like to write a book. Mainly to get rich off the back of it, and have a career that means I can live in just my underpants all day.
bullet.gif I am a bad photographer. I can see the pictures, but they never come out like that.
bullet.gif I despise mowing lawns.
bullet.gif My friends consider me a genius (apparently. I can't see it myself).