I'm trying to get a grip on news and other feature items for DMusic, Boycott-RIAA, Gnutella and Gnutellnews - and p2pnet.net, which I started.

I've been a writer/editor for a lot of years but I started out as an art student in England, where I was born - London, to be exact. These days my wife Liz and I, and our seven-year-old daughter Emma, live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. And after a four-year stint selling antiques (yep) in Ontario, I'm back to writing and graphics - and music.

I play blues and folk guitar. And computer. I make my computer compositions manually on Dan McKee's excellent Winjammer software synthesizer (which is unfortunately no longer available) and Koan Pro. No MIDI, or other, input. I enter each note manually and output the results via a Roland sound card, recorded and mixed on Goldwave,and Multisequencer, two more excellent Canadian apps.

I don't claim to be terrific at this, but it's satisfying to make music and have other people listen to it and now I'm hooked up with DMusic, I plan to do a lot more.

Cheers! And all the best ... Jon