So Who's This Damien Barrett Guy?

I spent my childhood moving every year or two–my family lived in places like American Samoa, England, an Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and even Yellowstone National Park for a summer.When I was 10, my family moved to England and lived on an American communications base. The after school activities at the school on the base tended towards what the volunteers (from the base) could teach, and so leaned a bit heavily towards computers and technology. So at ten years old I was learning to write simple programs in BASIC, FORTRAN, and PASCAL. After moving back stateside, I continued my computer interests and started building computers from parts ordered out of magazines.

In college, I toyed with getting a CS degree, but decided I liked working with people too much, and so got a teaching degree. After teaching for a few years, I moved to NYC to work with computers. I worked for a few years at an Apple Authorized Service Provider where I got to solve all kinds of wacky Mac problems and occasionally got to work on a celebrity's Mac or two. For about a year, I was teaching Apple's Mac OS X Server classes as an Apple Certified Trainer. Currently, I work for a university as a Mac specialist and help maintain several hundred Macs in a large, sprawling and complicated network of labs, classrooms, and faculty offices.

I've been blogging for more than 7 years. My identical twin brother, Cam, was one of the very first to popularize blogging as a format and he taught me the ins and outs of blogging.

I'm looking forward to blogging for TUAW and sharing what I know and find with the TUAW community.