Quote Originally Posted by DerekFSE View Post
How do you guys get involved in this stuff... seriously.
To be completely honest, and this will no doubt sound cliche, I just fell into it.

I grew up always wanting to just skate for my life. Make a living off that if possible - even if it was just scraping by - and just enjoy life like that. Then I broke my ankle and following this was a string of injuries. I lost my sponsors and due to recovery time, a lot of my skill as well.

During this time out I got into computers and just picked it up and kind of ran with it. First I got into gaming and competed in some high level clan scenes for a while but ultimately got drawn into the hardware and benchmarking.

Now I'm one of the founding members of Team.AU and work full time for an Australian enthusiast tech magazine and spend my days overclocking and testing the latest hardware (not always enjoyable - like today *sigh*)

Quote Originally Posted by T_M View Post
Sounds awesome Josh, ill keep the night free once you have a date.
News toys are always welcome

Although the last one i got slugged 7% GST on a sample :/
7% GST! What the funk? Definitely ain't gonna let that happen again

Quote Originally Posted by dinos22 View Post
imagine getting a media sample for short testing for some $20,000 uber PC and then getting slugged 7% on that
I hear those boat people are pretty good at crossing the straights between Indonesia and Australia... /bail