With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.