If you are reading this page you are a little curious about who it is that is created Technophilia. I hope I can shed some light on that question here. My name is Larry, and you can read my personal blag - blagophilia to read about my non-technical views, thoughts and life.My love for technology can be attributed to my father who was an electrician. I’d see him repair TVs sometimes and that sparked my interest. Through my school years I was the kid who’d take apart toys and other items and figure out how they worked. When I reassembled them they usually worked too. On my first job for my cousin I was sometimes the electrician on some of his contracting jobs. I was 14.

It was also the how they worked that drew me. It’s one thing to know how to wire an A/B switch, it’s another to know why an A/B switch works how it does. It’s that part that drew me the most, and still does.

My first experience with computers was when I was seven. At the local community classes me and a cousin took a programming course. It was LOGO on a Vic 20. I loved making that turtle move around and had the programs saved on a cassette tape. He got bored, I got hooked. At nine I had my first computer, a Commodore 64. I even had a dot matrix printer! It just made me get more hooked

It was inevitable I’d end up in a career that involved technology in some fashion. So it went that I went to NJIT for a CIS degree. I ended up in San Diego during the Dot Com era and have been a programmer, graphic designer, systems administrator, and security auditor among other things. I am currently responsible for maintaining, implementing, and managing trading systems.