Barrie Hesketh BCom MEd.   Barrie has a computing background and has retired from working as a computer professional. He wrote his first computer program in 1961. He is a former lecturer in computing at the Gordon Institute of Technology and was the Director of Computing and Communications Services at Deakin University. In the early 1980s he was a member of a policy making committee that formulated standards for the first commercial use of the Internet in Australia. Barrie grew up when real boys went to technical schools, so at school he was presented with the idea that it was usual for ordinary people to make and do things for themselves. Because he finished secondary schooling at year 10, to earn his academic qualifications Barrie studied part time for 15 consecutive years. He has undertaken many projects in his lifetime some small like making a Mirror sailing dinghy from a kit and some large like moving into a partly finished house and then completing it around the family as they lived there. Spending 9 years building a 13 tonne boat in the backyard was a big project. Barrie now spends his outdoors relaxation time on the golf course and of course regrets that he didn't start playing sooner. Barrie is an ACN Independent Business Owner. He does a lot of the back office tasks associated with the business that Joy and he run. He is bemused by an interesting phenomenon of the telecommunications industry in Australia, ie. the dominant providers enjoy their position for reasons other than because they provide the best and most cost effective services.