Dennis van der Stelt

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Frans Bouma tagged me. As everyone is joining in on this, I can't stay behind. So here are five things most of you don't know about me.

  • As Frans, I started back on an MSX at the age of 10. My parents had spend almost Fl. 3000,= (about $1500) for a VG8020 (image) and according to the salesman it was the future. I started coding in MSX-BASIC and got totally hooked on it. At the same age, 10 years old, I knew I wanted to become a developer. My MSX was later upgraded to a MSX-2 8245 (image) with a memory upgrade to 256Kb. Later I also bought a second-hand MSX-2 8280 (image) with video editing capabilities and two disk-drives. I upgraded it to 512Kb for a lot of money. My first encounter with a disk-drive was the option "Format" in a tool called "Ease". I had no idea what it did and when my MSX asked me if I really wanted to do that, I thought the computer was stupid, because I just told it so. ;-)
  • When I got my pc, one of the first demos I saw was Second Reality and again I was hooked. My first demoparty was X'96 (Ik vergeet nooit 'Chop' die je Windows trepaneerde) and after that I went TakeOver (picture), Wired in southern Belgium and Bizarre. I loved going there as you could talk to people who you had been chatting to on #nlcoders and #coders, two irc channels dedicated to the demoscene. It was the geekiest time of my life.
  • I hate (or at least have a hard time) reading books on technology. Although I really force myself to read, I hardly ever completely finish a book, even though I really want to. I much rather read articles on MSDN that go into detail really fast. Most books (and articles as well) tend to stay really superficial and don't get to the point, which I rather hate. Unfortunately I have the same disability so this post is already getting way too long. ;-)
  • I've never been on a plane and/or at a large conference. Although I've been to DevDays regularly, I've never been to TechEd or PDC for example. I really hope to be able to go to the PDC this year, for both the plane and the conference will be my first time.
  • I like to laugh, a lot. Problem is, when I laugh, it's really, really loud. When I had an apartment I used to watch Friends and everyone living around us knew when it was on, because they could hear me laughing. So if you're at the PDC and you hear someone laughing really loud, try to look me up. ;-)

The 5 people I'm tagging are Alex, Mike, Anko, Pascal, Miguel, Jan, Erwyn and Saber (Saber, it's about time you start blogging again!).

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miguel jimenez en español // MVP C# said:

Denis van der Stelt me ha marcado con un tag . Sabía que esto iba a alcanzarme tarde o temprano, así

# January 3, 2007 12:51 PM

Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 said:

The blog tagging game is still going on. With all the big names and blog-gurus tagged, eventually the

# January 3, 2007 1:38 PM

Erwyn van der Meer said:

Couldn't think of a better subject, so I just used Dennis' subject. Dennis tagged me and yes, as Alex

# January 3, 2007 3:30 PM

Damien Guard said:

5 people?  I make that 8!

[)amien

# January 3, 2007 6:16 PM

Dennis van der Stelt said:

@Damien : I didn't think anyone would actually count them! ;)

# January 4, 2007 12:07 AM

Pascal Naber said:

I've been tagged by Dennis van der Stelt . So... 5 personal things about me: 1 Two weeks back, on the

# January 4, 2007 2:12 AM

Jan Schreuder on .Net said:

I've been tagged by Dennis van der Stelt . So here are 5 personal things you might not know about me:

# January 4, 2007 4:33 AM

El Bruno said:

Buenas, mis amigos Eugenio y Fran , me han apuntado con un láser desde un satélite espía anotado en una

# January 11, 2007 10:27 AM

El Bruno said:

Buenas, mis amigos Eugenio y Fran , me han apuntado con un láser desde un satélite espía anotado en una

# January 11, 2007 10:28 AM
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