JAMES BENNETTS' HOMEPAGE

About me.

I was going to leave the company at that point, except that I was offered piles and piles of money to do six weeks' contracting work for the Wholesale Division. (They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house! I'm not made of stone!)

My resume is not quite as interesting as Douglas Adams', but I have also worked as a Computer Technician at Penleigh & Essendon Grammar School for a year. I also had a spectacularly brief career as a service station attendant, but IMHO the less said about that, the better.

I was born on January 24, 1972 in Melbourne, Australia, and that is where I have lived most of my life - except for two years spent in Malaysia, and ten months in the United States. I went to Primary School at the late, lamented Templestowe Primary School, and to High School at Xavier College. I took four-and-a-half years - including a ten month exchange at the University of California, Davis - to get my three year Computer Science degree from the University of Melbourne.

The photograph next to this text is now out of date, as I now seem to have a beard. This was not intentional, but was in fact the result of a) being in the habit of shaving only when I need to look presentable; b) being a computer programmer and thus not needing to look presentable on a day-to-day basis; and c) having no social life to speak of.

Note to NitPickers: That's not a beard in the photograph - it's a goatee.

BTW, don't bother to email me about b) above implying c). I already thought of it, and it's really not very funny.

Hobbies & Interests.

• Computers (Well, given my job and the fact that I have a Web Page, I'm sure no-one is particularly shocked)
• Science Fiction (Oh my God, someone who works in the computer industry who likes SF...), specifically Doctor Who.
• Reading (Mainly SF, of course, but lots of other stuff too...)
• Tennis
• Basketball
• Poker

Other stuff on this site.

• Here's my resume. I'm unemployed at the moment. Please hire me.

• Well, it's taken a while, but I've finally succumbed to the universal urge to put old family photos and such things on the ol' website. Click on this link to view the gallery.

• Reviews of stuff I've recently seen/read.

• Recent developments in Scotland concerning the cloning of sheep have come as no surprise to me. For years I have been convinced that a friend of mine, Damien Whaley, is actually a clone of former US Vice-President J.Danforth Quayle. As proof, I present a document compiled by another friend, Steve Lording, entitled: The Qualey Journals

Other Links and pages.

• Another friend of mine, Michael Cleland is the maintainer of the unofficial official Kate Ceberano Home Page, as well as having a very nice homepage of his own.

• The inspiration for this page in more ways than one - Deborah LaMere, who has a great, (if somewhat out of date 8^P) homepage.

• Merric Blackman is another friend with yet another homepage...

• As indeed is Alex Chevallier. Hers is here.

• My brother, Andrew Bennetts, plays for a basketball team known as the Scorpions.

• If you watch the TV show Babylon 5, you should check out The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5. If you don't watch Babylon 5, you should.

• The newspaper I read most often is the Melbourne Age. The fact that it is a morning paper and I never have time to read until late evening probably explains a lot about the way I look at the world...

• And always remember the most important phrase in the IT world - "Dilbert is a documentary."

Access One Staff Homepages

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Byron Brink	Andrew Connor	Sherry Cox	Anthony Gould
Paul Kavanagh	Andrew McDonald	Andrew Rosewarne	Daniel Zanatta

Homepages of Close Friends, Acquaintances, and People I met once.

Yes, of course this is a desperate attempt to appear more popular. What of it?

From my Xavier College Days
	James Bowditch	Tom Reynolds
From my time at the University of California, Davis
Jason Gabler	Chris Lambertus	Jim Hoagland	Steve Wormley

Comments, Questions, Suggestions? Send 'em to me at glamma@iname.com