Ok, I have been tagged by Erwyn so here is my list of 5 things you might not know about me.

1. When I got my first job back in 1995 I started programming in Microsoft Visual Foxpro 3.0. At that time I found it SO much better than all the other languages (dBbase III+, Pascal and even Cobol) I programmed in before and was really happy with this decision of my employer to use this. Visual Foxpro was a data centric, object-oriented environment and I continued programming in ( newer versions of) Visual Foxpro till the moment the first CTP of .NET came out. From that moment I started programming C# and never went back. When I had my first look at LINQ I was very surprised to see the “Visual Foxpro data centric approach” being integrated in .NET.
2. I am a KOI keeper! I spend a lot of my spare time on taking care of my 10 beautiful KOI. Because KOI require an excellent water quality I am using several filtration units, millions of Nitrosomonas, UV light and air pumps to keep my pond clear. (some examples of these beauties, unfortunately not mine)
3. I am married for almost 5 years now with my wife Miranda. I live in the Netherlands in a small town named Hoorn and together with my wife I have a beautiful daughter, named Emily, of almost 2 years old. 
4. In the evenings, when I am not busy with my KOI or family, I spend most of my time with my laptop on the    couch. I do not watch TV a lot (only some movies) and don't like to sit behind a desk when I am not at work.  So, all my blog reading, sending mail, MSN, etc. is done from my very comfortable couch.
5. At the age of 17 I started with fitness. Unfortunately I got really addicted to this and fitness slowly became bodybuilding! In that period I was in the gym 7 days a week, ate 3 kilos of cooked potatoes, 300 gram steamed vegetables, a grilled chicken breast fillet, 2 pieces of fruit, some protein shakes a day. At the top of my "bodybuilding carrier" I weight 84 kilogram (184.8 lbs) which is pretty my for a small guy (approximate 5 feet 6 inches) like me. After some years, when I got my first job at a large Dutch Bank, I was aked to wear suits at work. So, I went to the store to buy some new suits. It was at that moment, when I noticed I couldn't buy "normal suits" anymore, I finally realized my body wasn't in normal proportions any more. From that moment I started thinking about quitting fitness (bodybuilding) and luckily after some time I did. (I decided not to post any pictures to make this story not even more embarrassing )

I tag Jezz, Rene, Dennis, Carlo, Christian, Mark