An accident waiting to happen

When I saw a post some weeks ago about 5 things I didn't know about Robert Scoble I could only hope it didn't reach me. Since then I saw dozens more until the last couple of days it hit our bloggingabout.net community. Just over the last two days many of us wrote about our private 'secrets'. And thanks to Edward it's my turn now. A good reason to reincarnate my blog.

So here we go:

1. I've been a major (let's say MAJOR) Guns n' Roses fan since the day I switched on MTV and saw Paradise City. Which BTW is still my favorite GnR-song by far. Not so interesting in itself, but people that know me, can hardly think of me as a:
   1. Long-haired
   2. Head-banging
   3. Black t-shirt wearing
   4. Hard-rock fan

   I could say this would be 5 things by itself but the stories continues.

2. I learned programming on the Commodore 64. I was the book-buying kind that used to type evening after evening on a program that in the end didn't do what I expected it to do and was disappointed. The funniest thing I remember is Hobbyscoop, a radioshow about programming broadcasted on Sunday evening. The show always ended with the broadcast of the bytes of a compiled program that you could record on tape and then try to play (which I have never seen anyone get to work, BTW). The fun part was that I was always in the car with my parent travelling home from my grandmothers house, because it was right after football ended on the TV. So we were sitting in the car listening to peep-peeeep-peep-peeeep-grgrrgr-peep-grrrgrr (imagine the sound a modem makes when connecting) and back then there wasn´t much else so we just had to listen ;-).

3. My wife always was unhappy with my little belly, which I found strange, because it wasn't so bad. Until the little belly went into a somewhat more descend belly and once I found myself laying my hands upon it to rest. That was the day I decided to loose weight (I guess that day is almost 4 years ago). I did that by starting running and in combination with a normalized eating pattern (which is, no candy but three descend meals a day). I lost 10 kilos in 8 weeks. I still run 3 times a week and I again eat everything I want and haven't gained a kilo since then. I once tried to run a marathon but that failed for several reasons, including major illness a couple a weeks before the event. I now focus on shorter distances, but I will once finish a marathon. Oh BTW, my wife is still unhappy because I now run a race every 3 or 4 weeks and am gone for most of that Sunday. Well, it's hard to please them ;-).

4. I don't think there is one line of code gone into production in 2006 that was written by me. I merely just talked, written documents, supported testing, building environments and lots more, all well received (at least that's what my customer still tells me), but hardly any programming. And I haven't really missed it too.

    

5. I can't end this list, without introducing my lovely children. Stefan (6) and Julia (3) really changed my life. A couple of years ago,  work was everything to me, everything was build around it. Now, my family is in the center and I build everything around that. I enjoy coming home to eat and play with them more than anything else I do. If I come home from work, it´s my task to shower them, read them a last story and then bring them to bed and I love doing that every day of the week.

    

Mmm, now the hard part, I'm supposed to tag someone. They won't like it but I'll tag Robert, Wellink, Edward and Fijsjan. I guess there will be some swearing going around in a crowded room in Rotterdam ;-).