It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

He used to work as a system administrator at Waikato University and this allegedly formed the inspiration for many of his writings. Simon Travaglia is best known as the author of the Bastard Operator From Hell stories about a rogue system administrator.