Names: Darrin & Melissa (Mel) Smith

Birthdates: 1 February 1972, 23 January 1976

Anniversary: 9 January 2004

Location: Salisbury, Adelaide, South Australia

Occupation: Darrin is student data manager at Bradford College in Adelaide. Mel is a mum and runs Little Para Pants, a cloth nappy business.

Interests: Common interests are books, movies, music, computers & Internet, cats, travel, and for some strange reason we like each other, too. Darrin is into maps, web programming; Mel likes writing, cooking, sorting & organizing, knitting & crocheting.

How we met: In 1996 Mel started the IRC channel #bannerman, where we ran into each other. Got to be friends, then more than friends, then we finally met in 2001, and eventually got married eight years after we met online.

Kids: Caleb, born 25th March 2007. Ian, born 31st May 2009 and died 2nd June 2009 due to severe brain damage suffered early in pregnancy.

Pets: Biscuit, 9 year old gray & white male cat, and Calico, 4 year old calico female, who live with us. Tigger, 9 year old tortoiseshell female cat who lives with Mel’s parents in the USA.