Happy Birthday Dave!

David Chuckles Lewis was born on October 28, 1970 in a foggy hamlet north of Toronto on a dreary Monday evening. Like him or loathe him (what’s not to love?), Mr. Lewis possesses all of the qualifications needed for birthday well-wishes on this blog: He is a Dad (father of a gorgeous daughter) and he is definitely a Geek. In addition, it’s his birthday so this day seems most appropriate.

Lewis founded Liquid-Matrix Security Digest in 1998. (The hyphen was never actually used.) Throughout the early years of the Digest, he wrote every post, exploit and headline single-handedly while working full-time for the corporate machine. As the site grew he added contributors, reeling them in with a forceful crack of the whip when their opinions don’t match his own.

Liquidmatrix got its start by being a source of exploit code and links to other security related websites. After a significant lobbying effort, Liquidmatrix turned to the new fad, “blogging”, and the rest as they say, is computing history.

In 2008, Lewis removed his picture from the front page of the Digest, in order to share the blame glory and concentrate part-time on “new projects”. He and his wife established The Lewis Family which helps to keep international companies in business through the never-ending consumption of diapers and diapering accessories totalling an estimated $38.7 billion USD.

Happy Birthday Dave.