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Name: Tom Cosgrave
Joined: sometime in 1999
Joined: sometime in 1999
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About
What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.
I've been on MeFi since 1999 and am user 131. Does this make me old skool? I mostly lurk these days.
My nickname is well...my name. I know, it's very boring. No strange and weird story here, I'm afraid!
I was born in Dublin, Ireland and live there to this day.
I first got online when I was an intern working in a software company in Cambridge MA, USA back in 1995. I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen - all that information! All those other people around the world!
That same year, I wrote my first HTML page by hand (no WYSIWYG tools back then!) and I swore that I'd never be writing HTML for a living, and that I'd be a software engineer writing Java. This turned out to be a case of "famous last words", as I ended up turning my back on software engineering and went into web development.
I'm also studying for a law degree by night and aim to diversify away from programming. Assuming I get the degree, I'll look at gettiong a MSc in something computing related as well and look at getting into the intellectual property side of things.
I'm a keen amateur photographer and maintained This Is Diopter, my photoblog, which is now on hiatus, due to work and study related madness.
I'm also a member of the Irish Labour Party and am politically active, and would like to run in local elections for a county council seat in the future. In US political parlance, that's something like a district supervisor seat.
I also enjoy music, motorsport, reading and of course, eating and sleeping.
I've been on MeFi since 1999 and am user 131. Does this make me old skool? I mostly lurk these days.
My nickname is well...my name. I know, it's very boring. No strange and weird story here, I'm afraid!
I was born in Dublin, Ireland and live there to this day.
I first got online when I was an intern working in a software company in Cambridge MA, USA back in 1995. I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen - all that information! All those other people around the world!
That same year, I wrote my first HTML page by hand (no WYSIWYG tools back then!) and I swore that I'd never be writing HTML for a living, and that I'd be a software engineer writing Java. This turned out to be a case of "famous last words", as I ended up turning my back on software engineering and went into web development.
I'm also studying for a law degree by night and aim to diversify away from programming. Assuming I get the degree, I'll look at gettiong a MSc in something computing related as well and look at getting into the intellectual property side of things.
I'm a keen amateur photographer and maintained This Is Diopter, my photoblog, which is now on hiatus, due to work and study related madness.
I'm also a member of the Irish Labour Party and am politically active, and would like to run in local elections for a county council seat in the future. In US political parlance, that's something like a district supervisor seat.
I also enjoy music, motorsport, reading and of course, eating and sleeping.