About This Blog and Website

Pertains to: www.popes-and-papacy.com & popes.typepad.com

Author's Web site: www.guruge.com

e-mail: anu@wownh.com

Mugshot: Taken Sunday, June 15, 2008 at the Boston Museum of Science. It is the latest picture I have. I will update it, if I ever have another picture taken. I do not want any grief about my eyes. I have Keratoconus.

Bio: Anura Guruge was born in Ceylon, came of  age in Britain (an Anglophile to the core), and has lived in the U.S. since 1985. For over 30 years he tried to make a living in the computer industry and was employed by the likes of IBM, Wang and BBN. Due to a genetic disposition, writing, however, is his weakness. He wrote his first book in 1983, 500 pages in longhand, in pencil, distrusting early PCs and too inept to use a typewriter. It was about a networking architecture, now long obsolete. The book, nonetheless, is still sold on the Internet. Since then, he has written four other dense books on technology and upwards of 350 published articles.

Sometimes when the planets are propitiously aligned, he produces graphic marketing collateral for select clients and creates image-laden Web sites.

He was, when young, Ceylon's 'Lactogen Baby' for eight years -- 'Lactogen' a Swiss baby milk formula, still available in certain Third World countries.

The 'wownh' in his e-mail comes from 'Waiters on Water'  a boat-based meal delivery system he ran for a few years.

His first name means a 'guiding light,' while 'Guruge' stands for 'from the house of the teacher.' Both his parents were teachers. But he is not sure whether he has ever lived up to his name.

His mother, and since then quite a few others, refer to him as 'Anu.' In his 30s, he discovered that Babylonians paid homage to an 'Anu.' His mother is unlikely to have known that. He has never had any desire to change any of his names.

Interests: www.guruge.com/interests.htm

Other Web sites: www.itindepth.com