Ken Guest’s online diary

I got tagged by Chuck for this “7 Things” meme. So here are 7 things you may not know about me:

1. I first met my wife at her house warming party seven years ago – it took four years for anything to happen though! I’m so happy it finally did though!
2. My first computer was a ZX Spectrum 48K that was bought when I was seven years old – I’ve since progressed through BBC computers, Apple Macs and then onto PCs. I also had a accounts on the WRTC vax – VMS and OSF/1.
3. I’ve similarly gone through a number of differing computer languages: Basic in various incarnations (ZX Basic, BBC Basic, VB), Z80 Assembler, HyperCard (yes, really), C, C++, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, ColdFusion, Java.
4. I might be Irish but my surname isn’t.
5. I read a lot of fantasy: Gemmell, Eddings, Tolkien, Pratchett; though I also enjoy Tom Clancy and Dale Brown novels.
6. I’m long-sighted in one eye and short-sighted in the other: one good reason why I’ve never been that good at sports.
7. I am an active PEAR developer.

Tagging Others

I’m supposed to tag 7 other people who then repeat the whole process:

• Proinnsias Breathnach for being such a good friend all this time. And because he doesn’t blog enough.
• Kae Verens for having a name that sounds the same as his first inital – and for helping out loads at the IPUG stand at last year’s Irish Opensource Technology Conference.
• Donncha O Caoimh for his trojan work back in the day with the ILUG CMS and for WordPress mu.
• Jaime Hemmett for her exuberance and energy she’s brought to the Irish PHP scene.
• AJ McKee for starting the Irish PHP Users Group in the first place!
• Justin Mason for Spam Assassin, SiteScooper and being an all round nice guy.
• Fuzzix for his levity and humour. That plus he’s a ZX head like myself.

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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