Joe.Smith

Joe was born into a family of itinerant farm labourers, but rose rapidly through their ranks, becoming a local chieftan by the age of 6. By age 11 the responsibility of co-ordinating grain production for the entire community had become too much, and he decided to take a couple of years off to work on a Korean fishing trawler in the South China Sea. After a violent storm, their ship was knocked off course – so far off course, in fact, that they found themselves sailing up the River Thames as far as the idyllic hamlet of Richmond. Here Joe was kidnapped by a Portuguese slave-trader named Manuel, who forced him to forge functional desktop computers from scrap metal. One day, while Manuel was out searching for more disoriented Korean fishermen to recruit as technicians, Joe forged a computer so intelligent that it was able to tell him how to release his shackles. He fled to the highlands, where a Buddhist monk taught him how to play the piano. He then toured extensively as a concert pianist in New College, Oxford and surrounding streets, before retiring undefeated and taking up a job at Powwownow, caring for their desktops and laptops and writing the odd telephony application in JavaScript.

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