I'm still here

I've been very busy lately with work, finding a new car, moving into a house, etc, so I've been spending less time on the forums. I still lurk once in a while and try to answere any technical questions I can.

To address the original question in this thread, I've had 8 years of experience as a software engineer and am currently finishing up a bachelors in computer science. EFI research and tuning has been a hobby of mine for the past 4 years and is now slowly becoming a career.

While I agree that a techincal background may give a bit of an advantage to a brand new tuner, I also believe that such an advantage can be made up with experience, talent, and will. A techincal mindset (weather from background, recent experience, or pure talent), however, is a very important quality in any tuner.

As far as the secondary (maybe primary now?) discussion about the validity of this thread, its my opinion that while a tuner's background may be be irrelevant to their current tuning skill and product, the information may be interesting for atleast some people, so why not provide it? I personally have nothing to hide and don't think that a non-techincal background is something to be ashamed of, especially if the current product is good. That's just my opinion, however, and I certainly see how such a discussion COULD turn sour, especially with a croud that likes drama

Thanks