Am I just a blog chain victim?
Ok, here are my five things:
-
Like many others I destroyed my joystick playing at
Decathlon.
My first computer was an Amstrad CPC 464. I hardly wrote more than two lines of Locomotive BASIC on it. It was probably something like 10 PRINT "Hello World!" and 20 GOTO 10.
Actually I spent much more time trying to load games from the cassette deck than programming. Too many games to name them all, but names like Fruity Frank, Ikari Warriors, Ghosts 'n Goblins or Arkanoid should bring back nice memories to some.
Like many, my first computer language was BASIC... The computers I learned programming on were the Thomson MO5 and TO7. Those had light pens!
- Although I've been living in Paris for 14 years now, I come from a small corner of Normandy.
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The first book I read in English was The Lord of the
Rings. I enjoyed it. Of course this little challenge took
me some time. Well, ok, I don't actually read books in
French much faster. But this one required carrying an
English dictionary with me...
- My cat's name is Bob. And no, I didn't choose that name.
- Not a lot of people actually know but I got married last year. The poor victim is Miss Comics.
- I'm writing a great book with Steve Eichert about LINQ.
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At the end of this month, I'm quitting my job at an
IT services company
to create my own company and become a freelance. This will
allow me to continue my own projects (SharpToolbox, JavaToolbox,
PageMethods,
the LINQ in Action book) and start new ones (like a
new site for .NET and Java). 2007 will with no doubt be another great and busy
year!
Ok, well actually that makes more than five points. I guess one thing I could add is that I don't know how to count correctly. Math and me, you know...
Who could I tag? What about
Charlie,
Troy
and
Keith (maybe
he'll bring his weblog back to life)? What about some French
guys?:
Sami (from
DotNetGuru),
Jb (Mono and
db4objects),
Pierrick
(look at his
WPF Sudoku
and
WPF/WCF/WF Tetris!) and
Mitsu (from
Microsoft).
More than five again? I told you!
