Nathan Taylor has spent way too much of his life poring over technology white papers, chip diagrams and benchmark results. How can we tell? He once had in-depth discussion about the Itanium's extreme instruction-level parallelism and how it ultimately turned out that developers really wanted thread-level parallelism.

You can find Daniel writing about weird, wacky and cool technologies across a wide range of genres including games, films, science and broadband.

He may sound innocent, but Leigh Dyer has attempted to get Linux working on an iPod, which means help desk workers everywhere view him as "difficult". He also knows his stuff. Leigh is a software developer and systems administrator with more than 10 years Linux and Windows experience. He's been using Ubuntu since before its official announcement in 2004, although he's not afraid to admit he's also quite a fan of Mac OS X.