elcome to Syd Bolton (.com). I am located in Brantford, Ontario, Canada and am very community minded. I am also a complete tech freak, having started working with computers when I was 10 and haven't looked back since. My current career includes the following hilights:

• Curator and Founder of The Personal Computer Museum here in Brantford
• Evolutionary Product Manager at Datasym - a point of sale manufacturer
• President of The Brant FreeNet, a non-profit ISP
• President of The Kelly Foundation, started by the late Stuart & Lillian Kelly
• President of Pixel Power, a web design & consulting firm
• Treasurer of JCI Brantford (formerly the Brantford Jaycees)
• Computer columnist, The Brantford Expositor, an Osprey daily newspaper
• Contributing writer, Armchair Empire, a video game (and more) website
• Contributing writer, brantNOW!, a local community site
• Contributing writer, Toronto Thumbs, a Canadian video game news site
• Contributing writer, Osprey Blogs, a national Canadian news blog
• Co-host, brantNOW! TV, a weekly "Live to Web" show about Brantford

Games for Windows - From my BLOG Microsoft loves to win in every business they are in. When they moved into the video game console space with the original Xbox they knew they weren't going to win right away, but they did manage to sell something like 24 million Xbox's. Not bad for a first outing. Then, they leapfrogged the competition to get the Xbox 360 into the hands of consumers and it has worked--despite hardware problems. The games are there, and people are loving it. What they don't seem to be loving these days is PC gaming. We've all read articles spelling out the "Doom" (pardon the pun) of gaming on your computer, and yet many people still play games on their computers. Why not? Computers and gaming go together like marshmallows and Rice Krispies. I'm personally a console gamer, but as curator of the Personal Computer Museum I know the importance of gaming on a computer over the years and that it's still quite strong today. When Microsoft came calling us looking for help in creating a retrospective view of gaming and computers over the years I was both surprised and honoured. So we're going to be part of the Games for Windows event occurring on June 27, 28 at Toronto's Interaccess gallery at Queen & Ossington. Computers change quickly. Gaming is changing quickly. It's important to preserve the history as it unfolds---because before you know it, it's gone. These are your memories and your good times. We just help you remember them.