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Well, for any experienced PC user the title of this page should read "Help/About..." - just click on the Help menu of your browser, there sure will be an "About..." item there.

Help Item One - Who am I?

I am a computer specialist. I have grown up in the middle of the microcomputer era. The very first computer I saw was a tiny COMIX-35 with as much as 32KB of memory, running a rudimentary BASIC interpretor upon which I wrote a bunch of programs. Then came the famous Apple II, then the IBM PC, then I started assembling 386, 486 and Pentium PCs myself. After a couple of years of working part-time in some of the screwdrive shops, I started  to work seriously in the computer industry and became a programmer. At the present time I deal with servers with multiple CPUs and hundreds of megabytes of memory; software running on those hefty machines ranges from fundamental operating systems like Windows NT Server to complex software packages like the Microsoft Commercial Internet System.

I used to write a lot of programs; that made me happy and feel confident of the technologies. Programing also helped me to understand how on earth computers can help you solve problems. Now I only use prorams, well, actually we sell them. I am the Systems Engineer of our Sales and Marketing department and my primary job is to help our customers to understand how the products would benefit them and how to plan for an efficient deployment of the system - we sell huge software packages that would potentially be able to deal with millions of users.

Help Item Two - Where Am I?

I've been living in Shanghai, China since I left my hometown to attend Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Shanghai is hardly perfect but I like it; you can see rapid paces of changes taking place every day.

I can be reached by email at lionelz@hotmail.com

Help Item Three - What do I do?

I work with computers and software products to make for a living. In my spare time I play snooker, tennis, and take photos.