What's this tagging about!!
So, thankyou Liam, I have been tagged, whatever that really means.
The task being to write 5 things about myself that others may not know.
- The most important one for me is that I am most definately a family man. I am married with 3 kids. Currently, the eldest is 8, then 3 and a little one at 1 (Who still insists on getting me and the wife up in the middle of the night :-( hence why it seems that I am permanently tired during the day and a bit grumpy). Immensly proud of my family and they are number 1.
- Been a computer games fan since I can remember (Well, late 70's anyway). I had an Grandstand Pong system which had some "different" games. As different as rearranging the position of your bat I suppose. This meant I could play Tennis, Squash, Target Shooting, Hockey against someone else. Then got an ATARI 2600 console. This was a real revolution at the time and discarded my Pong machine to a friend at school for a fiver. Then got a Texas Instruments TI 99-4A. This had some really cool games such as TI Invaders, Munchman,5 A-Side Soccer. I can remember spending many hours copying source code from some magazine only to find that I had mistyped something so then spending further hours tediously going over what I had done. Then some Sega consoles, Nintendo and of course Xbox and most recently Xbox 360 (My gamertag is "Baron Sparky") which I love, especially connected up wirelessly to my Media Centre.
- "Used" to play a lot of sports. Played a lot of cricket and football when I was young, then squash as I got older. Was in a good side for cricket but the football was not so successful. I was the captain of our local side and I think we won 1 game in 2 seasons :-( Also used to do a lot of Judo and a Korean martial art called Tang Soo Do
- I have been with Microsoft UK for nearly 9 years now. Joined from another American company called Digital Equipment Corporation where I used to part of the development team working on email backbones and gateways called MAILbus.
- Lifelong Liverpool FC supporter. I can still remember the heady days of the 70's where no side could touch them.
So, who to "tag" next. It has to be 5 of my friends and colleagues here at Microsoft UK who I know have blogs. (Thankfully, most of my friends are not technical apart from those I work with)
Graham Tyler
Martin Kearn
Mark Bower
Paul Holdaway
Jessica Gruber
I have enourmous respect for these guys! We all work for Microsoft in the UK and passionate about the products we work with.
