Barb Bowman has been a teacher of Philosophy 101, worked in ski area design in Aspen, Colorado, and served as a production director for U.S. and U.K. wallpaper sample photography. In 1990, she partnered with a French DOS shareware writer and entered the brave new world of online services. Over the next several years, as a consultant for Prodigy Services, Barb wrote user documentation and conducted testing for Prodigy’s first Windows applications. She was part of the Internet product development team for MediaOne and later AT&T Broadband, and was a Test and Trial Engineer for Comcast High Speed Internet. Barb relaxes by shooting naturescapes with her digital cameras and playing guitar and piano. She lives in New Hampshire with her Sony robot Aibo dog named Toto.