Thomas graduated from UniSA in 1992 as an Electronic Engineer where he was seduced by computers early in first year (mostly due to the realisation that holding a mouse the wrong way is much less painful than holding a soldering iron the wrong way).

He was intrigued by "free as in beer" and subverted by "free as in speech" soon after.

When he's not indoctrinating Geeklings he works as a Software Engineer (or at least he seems to play one in a long-running reality TV show). Projects he has worked on include everything from submarines to solar panels, cars to cows and trains to telemetry.

An interest in puzzles, as well as a slight case of paranoia, has led Thomas down the dark path of cryptography. He hopes that one day Schneier's law will be repealed so that he can finally finish his perfect cipher.

Thomas is a recovering Sysadmin.