Yikes I am tagged!
There's a snowball of blogposts crawling through the internet. I got tagged by Edward and Mike, so here I go...
So here's my list of things people in general don't know about me:
- I am married with Janneke Verlaat on 24-8-1999. We held our party in the Ajax Business Lounge in the Amsterdam ArenA. At the time we were working in the stadium and we managed to prevent a surprise where our marriage would have been announced on the field, right before the start of an important match that Ajax had. We have two daughters, Amber (26-5-2003) and Anouk (25-5-2006). Notice the timing! :)
- At the age of 15 or 16 back in 1992 I published a game on the Commodore 64 called Dr. Foster. I mainly did some graphics stuff for this game, but was also coding some other games that were never released. I still have them on some 5 1/4 disks lying around.
- I used the be very active in the cracking and demoscene of the Commodore 64. Coding was done in assembly, a great way to learn how computers work (if you consider the C64 a computer). At least this was the time when I wanted to become a programmer. My nicks were: Mc-T-Fly (Triad, The Ruling Company, TAT), Rock Krusher (Sense Design). I was the main author of the "Ambition" magazine for the C64.
- When it was time for me to choose what my profession was going to be I wanted to become a Police detective and did a couple of tests with them, unfortunately at the time the Police in the Netherlands was forced to hire more people from ethnic minorities and women, so I was not allowed to enter the program. Then I started studying Computer Science at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and got hooked into Microsoft technology with my first internship back in 1997 (so now I am into MS technology for 10 years)
- I love snowboarding:
Tagged: Olaf, Shawn, Amit, Chris, Sander