After his return, he got a business degree from the University of Baltimore, and in 1984 started a software company in his basement, writing the computer programs himself.
Next stop: writing computer code during the daytime for a small robotics company, and driving a limo on nights and weekends to make some extra cash.
"I think the computer makes you more creative, " said writing teacher Linda Denstaedt.
Being a writer who makes his living off the writing of words which appear on computer screens, I would kind of like to see words stay for a while.
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Meals-on-wheels delivered his food, a friend helped him with shopping and he finished writing his first and only novel on the computer that talked to him as he wrote.
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The Web is fundamental to his business, says Arbiter, who notes that students might be writing an essay on one half of the computer screen and placing an order on the other.
Dr Bilham and Vinod Gaur, from the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bangalore, writing late last year in Current Science, said that until recently Indian seismological research has neglected a technique known as geodesy, which measures the strains accumulating in, and distorting the surfaces of, plates.
But he's learning that he can no longer play the same role that he did in the early days, when he spent most of his time writing computer code.
Writing Secure Code notes that logging on to your computer as a member of the administrators group--with privileges to do anything to the computer, some of it downright nasty--is a bad idea, except when absolutely necessary.
Wheeler, who has a degree in computer science from the University of Kansas, spent long nights in Huff's garage, writing a program that could search multiple police databases to find evidence of crimes committed by the same person.
Glasberg said a television network had obtained a copy of a novel Hatfill was writing -- about biological warfare -- that could have only come from the scientist's computer, which federal authorities have confiscated.
The songwriter was just adhering to that old adage of "writing what you know, " having worked as a full-time computer programmer prior to giving the music world a go -- though, as he readily admits, he still keeps it real by coding for his own site.
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