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Well I guess nobody can escape the 7 things chain? I got tagged by Thijs yesterday and now it’s my turn to come up with 7 things you might or might not know about me …

7 Things

• I have no degree, I only finished high-school (Social Sciences) and attended one year of College before dropping out and started working
• I’m completely self taught, autodidact if you wish
• I love to cook and according to my girlfriend am quite good at it. I learned most of it during high-school where we had cooking classes 4 hours per week. Then it sucked, now I love it!
• I’m a metal fan. In Flames, Opeth, Amorphis and Moonspell are among my favourite bands. Older metal bands like Manowar, AC/DC, Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden and Gamma Ray are on my playlist too. As long as it has a good melody in it I like it.
• I’ve spent my high-school time at a boarding school. I hated it when my parents sent me off to a boarding school but looking back at that time I must admit that it probably was the best decision my parents ever made for me. It’s there that I met my girlfriend in 6th grade.
• I live in a city called Peer which translates into english as pear which is quite amusing seeing my affinity with PHP (you php developers know what I’m talking about)
• During my career I’ve worked as waiter in a restaurant, assembly-worker at a truck parts factory, maintenance technician at the Ford factory in Genk, clerk in a bookstore and even garbage collector. So I’ve had my share of stupid jobs before I finally got the opportunity to start as web-developer.

Seven People

This is going to be the hardest part, finding 7 people to tag … most people I know either don’t blog or already are tagged so i’ll do my best coming up with 7 …

• Jente Kasprowski for he is the single most talented webdesigner I’ve met, has a great musical taste, is the best boss you could ever wish for and really has to start his own personal blog! http://www.inventis.be (Yes Jan, you are nice too but Thijs already tagged you :p )
• Niki dubois, for he is the guy that got me blogging again, my newest colleague at Inventis and all-round nice guy: http://blog.ikin.be/
• Bart Vandebeek for he is a nice colleague, great designer and fun guy. And he has to keep his damn blog up to date: http://www.studioimago.be/blog/
• Mark Creeten, for he is a fellow with a big passion for webdesign, and autodidact like me and for the chats we had when I was still working at Boek & Soft: http://www.gigadesign.be/

Well there we have it … the rest of the people I would like to tag are already tagged (thijs, andries, felix, michelangelo, skoop, …) or don’t blog (iworx, david, dirk, dieter, … do something about it guys, there’s more than twitter alone )

Here are the rules for my fellow bloggers who I tagged:

• 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.