Seven Things – Tagged by Matthew

Like Matthew Weier O’Phinney, I don’t really understand these tagged memes either, however, after he said such nice things about me, I thought I’d have a go.

Seven things you may not know about me:

• My first programming job was programming PIC microcontrollers using Forth. Forth has been one of the more confusing languages that I’ve used.
• The first search engine I used was Gopher on a SparcStation 1 in 1991…
• My most expensive telephone bill was for just under £1500 (3 month billing) due to playing EverQuest in the days before ADSL.
• I have high myopia and without my glasses, I can’t focus on the same word in a book with both eyes.
• I cannot sing in key much to my wife’s chagrin.
• The band played Blue Moon at my wedding in honour of my stag party. I had to explain the significance of the song to my aunt…
• My favourite wine comes from Rueda, with Rioja a close second. I like Spanish wine!

I then get to pass on the baton to:

• Derick Rethans with whom I can enjoy a nice glass of wine.
• Michelangelo van Dam of PHPBelgium who helped organise the ZF bug hunt day.
• Jon Whitcraft who very kindly gave me a lift to a very expensive restaurant!
• Pádraic Brady who is writing a free book on Zend Framework.
• Andries Seutens who was one of the team creating the Zend Framework Certification
• Elizabeth Naramore as she talked me into writing an article for php|architect.
• Jeremy Coates who organised the excellent inaugural PHPNW conference!

These are the rules apparently:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some wierd.
• 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.