Dave O'Neill has been an aerospace engineer, a marine engineer and, for a smelly and depressing summer, a project engineer working in paper recycling. He then moved into IT and sales and decided that sitting behind a desk and traveling between virtually indistinguishable large chain hotels while racking up the airmiles and waistline was somehow more fun. He writes because the universe is currently too depressing and as a veteran of the great flame wars of the 1990s he's bored of the interne