Etienne, the Canadian Frenchy (more on the Frenchy on http://geekswithblogs.net/etiennetremblay/archive/2006/10/18/94483.aspx), tagged me and I guess it is only fair to tag a few others and share something about myself that people probably (hopefully) do not know about me already. I met Etienne in Redmond at the OD for TFS … we had a great time ... see http://blogs.sarkhouston.com/mazocar/archive/2006/10/21/3551.aspx for the gang.
1. Born in Switzerland, but grown up in South-Africa since the age of 5, with only 3 visits back to the old motherland to date, spending 2 years in the mountains doing my military service and 2 years with Burroughs where I worked on the best operating system ever … CTOS.
2. I spend my spare time, which is rather rare these days, playing football (the soccer type) and cycling with my three boys, and on rare occasions I even manage to get some scuba diving time in with my oldest son, normally in pursuit of sharks, the most beautiful and most misunderstood creature in the ocean.
3. Thanks to my boys I am an avid Battle for Middle Earth fan, although I neither have the time, nor patience to ever get as tenacious and good in the game as my boys.
4. I completed T4 Electrical Engineering, but quickly moved into IT, replacing the soldering iron with the keyboard. To keep the aging brain cells going and to bring my qualifications in line with what I have been doing since the mid-80’s, I am completing a BSC in Software Engineering part-time … driving my family to tears every year when it is time to prepare for the exams.
5. I love simplicity and often get flak for colleagues for trying to find an easier way to solve a technical problem. I strongly believe that simplicity is more difficult to achieve than complexity, but that it is essential for successful and especially “maintainable” solutions.
That concludes the brief information dump about me … let me conclude by tagging Garret, Jean-Pierre and James … hopefully it will get James and Garret reactivated on their BLOGs.
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