Five things you didn’t know about me

January 2007 – August 2007 • Personal (Guernsey, meme) • 1,049 views • one response

I’ve watched this go round all the .NET development blogs I read but alas none of them tagged me.

This in fact turned out to be a bit of a blessing because now that Alex has tagged me I suddenly found I couldn’t think of five things nobody knew about me.

So here are five things you may or may not have known.

1. I learnt to simultaneously program on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Acorn BBC Micro at age 11. Both originally in BASIC then later in Z80 and 6502 assembly respectively – I guess I’ve always been platform independent ;-)
2. I was the first Internet Service Provider in the Channel Islands providing free Internet e-mail via my Black Ice BBS a few years before Guernsey.Net and Local Dial formed.
3. I want to build my dream-home in British Columbia, Canada in a small-town a few hours away from Vancouver. Now I’ve passed my degree I have enough points to emigrate without needing to find a job before I go…
4. I accidentally set fire to my kitchen last year. I was out of the house when I got a phone call and upon returning home found the place full of firemen. Whilst the kitchen needed major work everything else was ok and even better the owners insurance paid up for the damage.
5. I’m very lucky in most areas of my life – from little things like finding parking spaces and things I want to landing good jobs and surviving what should be serious accidents with minor scrapes. Alas the luck doesn’t extend to relationships.

I’ll tag Gringod, Steve, Wilco, Arild and Swoo.

[)amien