Disgruntled Research Associate who was forced to learn (hahahahahaha) perl to complete work related tasks that make mindless drudgery look like a beach-blanket picnic in the Elysian Fields. Subsequently became enamoured with perl. Didn't help love of job any.

Update: knowledge progressing at times nicely. Well into using Tk and a pantsload of different packages to write a user configurable database interface with text search & scoring, charts and chart printing. If anybody finds a nice way to print multiple pages from a single canvas on a Win32 platform I am ready to have your babies.

Spontaneously generated quasi-recursive motto: If I learn one thing each day it's generally that I can forget it by tomorrow.