about me

hey, i'm mike soares. a lot of my friends call me soares, dj swar, swar, etc. i'm twenty-one years old and am from montreal, quebec.

i'm a third year undergraduate student at the university of waterloo in computer engineering. i'm currently in my fifth semester of university, so most of my time is spent working hard in school, using computers, logic, and various other concepts and knowledge to solve or simplify problems. using and modifying computers started out as a hobby for me, so i figured, "why not learn more about what i like instead of pursuing something i might not like?" and here i am.

i like to think of myself as just an average guy that likes to learn about, play around with, and use computers to their full potential. the one computer i use now is my macbook pro with an intel c2d processor clocked at 2.4ghz with 4gb of ram. my media server with an intel celeron processor clocked at 1.2ghz with 1gb of ram is back in montreal backing up my website and other stuff. my mbp runs mac os x (leopard) as well as windows xp under parallels and my media server only runs windows xp. i've also got an acer aspire one with intel atom processor and 1.5gb of ram running windows xp and ubuntu linux for when i don't feel like lugging around my laptop (which is pretty rare).

my interest in computers began back in 1993 (yes, i was three years old) when i started playing all kinds of games. i later discovered the internet. after that, i became interested in web scripting in 1998 when i started to use microsoft frontpage. i learned html by going over the code frontpage would generate and replicating the page by rewriting the code in a text editor. over the years, i have learned to code in other languages such as php+mysql, xhtml, javascript, css, c, c++, c#, assembly, vhdl, etc.

contact me

if you have any comments or would just like to talk, you can reach me on windows live messenger (msn) or e-mail me at !