I are born at 1960, Madrid, Spain. I have studied Biology, title of Insurance broker ( 10 yearks working at Insurance), and are professional programmer in Visual FoxPro (another 18 years). My first hobby are Old home computers & Video game consoles (my nick at all sites i are active is museo8bits and make reference to my website, El Museo de los 8 Bits ), and are one of first collectors of Spain (over 100 computers & consoles and more of 3000 original software units). I "sputting english" due all first software for the ZX Spectrum (my first computer) are in english. I participe at events as MadriSX&Retro or RetroEuskal, I are vendor at most online auctions sites with the same nick, and founder of iSubastas and AUSO.

I are at the Web / BBS from 1200 bauds modems, I are ex-poin at FidoNet and cosysop at many BBS prev to jump to Internet. After hosting my website at many free hosting sites as Geocities, with a ADSL with fix IP, I make my server over Linux at 2000. I have make my website with PHP, Perl and MySQL

I belong to the generation self-formed when I discovered home computers, when official qualifications either did not exist or were still anchored in Mainframes. My knowledge in what has given me work was obtained by myself, thanks to the incipient BBS networks and reading the code developed by others, from which I kept what seemed logical to me.

I always remember that I got my first job in computing when, after a regular interview, the head of the company asks me: Do you have some code developed by yourself? Yes, this clone of Facturaplus (Spanish leader in the accounting and billing market) improved, without ever having seen its source code. 10 minutes later he was hired.

And my experience is that titles are fine, but they must be backed by a curiosity to learn and improve. If they are not only parrot centificates that recites what they do not know or do not know how to do otherwise