I was born 20 July, 1963, of parents Earl and Heddy, during a total eclipse of the sun in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. We lived in Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada, until 1974, then moved to Pinehurst, Lunenburg County.

I attended New Germany Rural High School from '76 to '78, and hated it, and moved to the newly opened Parkview Education Center. I loved it and was there from '79 to '81.

I went to University of Kings College for a year, decided to do a BSc with a major in Computer Science at Dalhousie University, and from there the storyline gets a bit complicated. I came out in the gay community, met Norval, moved in with him a few months later, dropped out of university for a couple of years to work freelance, then finished my degree and got a pretty wonderful job with Dalhousie, building the Internet in Nova Scotia and Canada, in '89.

I was there, at Dal's Communications Services, a part of University Computing and Information Services (UCIS) until February 2003 working at the Network Operations Center as NOC Manager. Mostly I did administration of various Internet systems and managed a team of clever Internet geeks.

Precisely a year later, I was the first employee of the Barrington Consulting Group with the auspicious title Senior Technology Consultant and I've been doing big Internet and database projects since.

I'm active in the gay community in Halifax, with Wayves magazine, eleven times yearly, and the Halifax Pride Committee, am one of the contributing editors of the Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia gay.hfxns.org and on Friday at suppertime I hang out with, and help run solar courses, publications, and events for Solar Nova Scotia.

You'll see me around town on my motorbike, a fire engine, candy-apple red, '96 Honda Pacific Coast.

My brothers G ar y & Michael Blades, are somewhere in the global village, and in Vancouver respectively.