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David Goodspeed – David is the editor of AutoworldToday at Today Newspapers in the Dallas suburbs. He is also a webmaster and photographer. He got started doing photography for the newspaper while working as a firefighter/paramedic in one of his towns, and he came to the newspaper group full time in 1992.

David entered automotive journalism in 1998 and became AutoworldToday editor in 2002. On the average, he drives some 100 new vehicles each year.He enjoys the great outdoors and as an avid fly fisherman, as is his girlfriend Tish. He especially enjoys nature photography and is inspired by the works of Ansel Adams.

Doug Moran – Doug is a nerd from way back, falling for a Commodore PET at the age of 15, and never looking back. Riding the nerd wave, he got a Computer Science degree and entered the tech industry at a young age, deciding after a year and a half of front-line phone technical support that he should try something, *anything* else. He settled on technical writing, and has been cranking out documentation for companies like Unisys, SGI, Cisco, Juniper, and many others ever since. The fact that he commutes between his family in Austin and his day job in California is something that he is simply trying to live with.

A major PDA fan, Doug ran through every Palm from the Palm Pilot 1000 up to the Palm III before moving to a Handspring, a Tapwave Zodiac, and a brief flirtation with Windows Mobile via an unlocked HTC Universal, before settling on his current iPhone 3Gs 32Gb. He loves eBooks, and is one of millions waiting for the (probably mythical) Apple iTablet. Aside from his beloved Sami, “the fam” consists of Maggie, Joseph, two dogs, and five cats.

Francis Scardino – Francis is a 30 year old Technical Analyst living in Haftield, Pennsylvania. He works for Deluxe Corporation, which probably makes your checks if you still use them. He is a 13 year veteran of the Army National Guard, where he just finished his third overseas deployment. He is a Network Administrator and Electronics technician for the Army, and he often gets to use the best the US Government has to offer in technology. He is still a big gamer and loves to build his own gaming systems. He is addicted to gadgets and anything tech, and he spends tons of time online — always looking for latest and greatest (often spending more than he should on new gadgets and phones).

Frances is always the one called when friends and family members’ computers need fixing. His gadget life goes way back to the days of his first 8088 machine, and running up the phone bill calling any BBS that would let him in. He can remember saving up about $400 one summer just to buy his first CD drive, which included the game “the 7th Guest”. He enjoys long walks at Best Buy and Micro Center, and his other interests include sport shooting, paintball, motorcycles, addicting TV series, working on his house, making fun of MAC users .. and he loves his Land Rover LR3.