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bleak afternoon, after way too many hours of programming in his
isolated office at Scotland's St. Andrews University, Doug Hamilton
took down his guitar. He'd spent many years writing and singing about
world peace, environmentalism, and unrequited love - the usual singer-songwriter
stuff. But for some reason today was different.
Unexpectedly, out came a song about graphical user interfaces. There followed in short order new songs about the hard lives of servers, workin' on the help desk, and babyhood in the wired millennium. A few years
later, after an exhilarating but un-remunerative ride on the dotcom
roller-coaster, Doug Hamilton the Computer Guy
is once again toiling anonymously in an isolated office. But in the
wee hours, day job and family in momentary abeyance,
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