User:WauloK
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A self-confessed geek, WauloK was born in NSW, Australia in 1971 and has been on the internet since around 1993.
WauloK started on the internet with a 28.8k modem and an expensive $5/hr account at OzEmail ISP (now pwned by iiNet).
He's been a member of the Efnet IRC community since that time and has rarely been offline. As of 2006 he hardly goes on IRC at all, mostly living on IM via Meebo.com
Originally, Christian he broke out of that and was more like an non-practising eclectic Neopagan, but is tending back to it again.
He runs the BangRocks Network featuring his originally-titled blog "WauloK's BangRocks blog" (full of rantings and ravings regarding his daily life) and a handful of subdomains.
A popular subdomain is VZ-ALiVE which features information and applications (including emulators) related to the Dick Smith VZ 200, VZ 300 and compatible 8 bit computers. The VZ range of computers were based on the TRS-80 computer and in fact contains the same Microsoft BASIC ROM with some of the routines moved in memory (possibly to escape licensing fees). More details on the website.
The Australian Palm OS User's group is administrated, maintained and hosted by WauloK. He also creates most of the news articles on the front page of the website to keep it fresh. AusPUG.org.
Married in 2001, he (2006) now lives west of sunny Brisbane in Godzone Queensland on his own. They divorced at the end of 2005 and are living separately.
WauloK keeps busy playing Texas hold 'em Poker and Ten-pin bowling in nearby suburbs. He also plays Texas hold 'em Poker online at Ultimatebet.com.
MMORPG's he's played include: Everquest (ok), Dark Age of Camelot (meh), Horizons (awful) and World of Warcraft (reasonable) -- although he usually starts playing during their beta phase and soon drops out due to boredom once the game becomes commercial. Also tested a free MMORPG, SilkRoad Online. SilkRoad Online website
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Programming is one of his loves and he prides himself in having done some programming in many languages (some you may call scripting) such as: C, Perl, PHP, Bash among others. He's only written one main application called "Quirl" for the Palm OS (graphics created with TrueSpace 2.0 and music written with ModPlug Tracker -- both by WauloK, himself). The music tracker was licensed from Astraware (Astraware website).
These days, he dabbles in PHP from time to time and most recently has written a plugin for the blog application WordPress.
I've started getting into Texas Hold'em Poker and playing at my local venues. I'm in the Top 5 at one venue. I started a site for Australians who want to learn Texas Hold'em Poker and to post blogs about their experiences, teach new players how to play and discuss Poker in the forum. Check out my new site: Australian Texas Hold'em Poker blogs and info I play almost every night of the week at venues in the West Brisbane area and online at PartyPoker, World Poker Tour online and PokerStars. My handle is "Pirhana Jay".
