• My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20. My father bought it in 1981 when i was ten years old. The computer came with a Basic programming manual and a casette-drive, but without software or games. This situation triggered me to write my first “Hello World!” program.
• In 1985 my father was electronics engineer and he pushed me to learn the Forth programming language because he needed someone to program his embedded devices. This resulted in my first embedded “Hello World!” application.
• I once had collection of bird eating spiders a.k.a. tarantulas. I used these spiders to test my Biosphere mark ][ climate controller, one of my graduate projects. The spiders are gone now.
• After the spider experiment, i changed the tarantulas for a cat and made the “Catbot“, an electronic friend for my cat. I learned that cats don't like robots because they have the same effect on a cat as a vacuumcleaner.
• The catbot is now replaced by PHPbot, a robot controlled by some PHP scripts. This device is still under development.
• I believe that the consumption of good homemade icecream results in instant short-term happiness.
• I hate pyramid schemes

The following people are tagged by me:

• Bert Boerland already tagged by Stefan Koopmanschap
• Diederick Lawson
• Marcus van Soest
• Harold Metselaar
• Frank Zwart

Here are the rules:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.
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