Nice post my friend. Dropped you a follow, you can follow me at [@looking4llamas](https://steemit.com/@looking4llamas). Looking forward to your future posts! 
 ![https://steemit.com/@looking4llamas](https://media.giphy.com/media/qPcX2mzk3NmjC/giphy.gif) 

Good luck dude, will add you to my votes for witness

Thanks for sharing a bit about your background, you seem well qualified to be a witness and I like that you've put together a roadmap detailing how you will proceed from here.  Man, that Sharp PC belongs in a museum, what a dinosaur!  I also started programming as a kid, learning QBASIC on our first family PC, an IBM 386 with an amazingly huge 80 MB hard drive and 4 MB of RAM.  Ah, those were the days.  All you young 'uns nowadays are spoiled with your fancy graphics processors and APIs that do everything for you... I swear you people haven't lived until you've hand optimized a critical loop with a bit of assembly language.

Anyway, you've got my witness vote.  The clincher was your pirate persona; I just saw the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie and loved every minute of it; definitely the best one yet!

Consider yourself voted. 

Interesting background, too. I was happy to learn more about you in the process! Good luck.

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@drakos I like your idea about messaging. I really hate we can't do that here. I also like taking your $$ in the Steem Poker League. Followed and upvoted, will also throw you one of my witness votes.

@drakos of course I would vote for you, done and done! I think you would a be fantastic addition! New or not, when I was first getting started you jumped at the chance to help me out and I'll never forget the kindness, patience and understanding you showed me! Best of luck to you :)
XOXO

lovely piece ....thanx a lot for sharing.

Got my vote, buddy! Get it!!!

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Welcome fellow witness, you are now a knight of Steem!

I would vote for you

Late but not never... my vote hit you yesterday bud!

@drakos - Nice to read some more info about you. I went ahead and voted you for witness, and your handle is now showing under the voting section. Good luck with this endeavor. @transcript-junky

Voting?! Hey, at least on Steemit, we pick the candidates, right? ;-) That was an easy vote too.  I'll resteem this as well!

Edit: Or maybe I won't resteem it? The resteem button seems to be missing even after a refresh.  /boggle

You are great @drakos, keep it up, you have my vote

Legend thanks for helping me create my page :)

You have my vote!

thus i made though a witness @drakos

@drakos nice to meet you, my vote do you have, though my upvote is small you have it. this is the post to promote you as a witness? Greetings from a new Minnow from Belgium.

Hi Drakos, i know this is late but i only just found your post. 
Im wondering if i should host my own witness server as well. I have a spare PC that i dont use, do you think its possible to host it on that?

Also i want to vote for you as a witness but cant find the box.

Voted. Thanks for the help @drakos.

Wow!!! From a Biochemist to a computer guru that's just spectacular. I have always know the developers of social media platforms had some gain in it as they won't just be paying for hosting and other stuff without getting something in return. Nothing in life is truly free, not even in Freetown.

voted :)

Your post has been most helful to me. thank you so much.

hello drako you have always voted my post I thank you because you have helped me good law your post and you have a plan to follow as a witness I wish you success and that you meet this goal that you projected yourself. I follow you friend

Thanks for your help!! It was great to read about your interesting background. I voted for you because you will be a great witness. You are more than qualified. And you are the first person I followed since joining. Looking forward to your posts and the growth of Steemit.

nice ideas, wish you success! just upvoted and wittnessed for you!

Same here ; the privacy concern, thank you.

You've got 1 of my witness votes.

Have no clue what voting does yet, But I voted for you :)

Voted for you

Yea's already me scurvy dog Witness. @drakos Arrrh!

@drakos, can you update the beginning of your witness thread, I was going to try to get people to resteem witness threads of those who need the help.