Welcome to chain-letters blogsphere style. There's this on-line tag game going around, I've been watching it spiraling around on many of the blogs I read and now Udi dragged me into this as well :)

So here goes - here are 5 things you don't know about me:

1. It only took me 14 years to get my BA degree in Computer Science. I began studying in 1990 in the Technion ,quit after 2 years and only bothered to graduate when I wanted to get a Masters degree

2. I was a Microsoft Foxpro MVP for 3 years in the 90s - about half of that time I was working on completely different platforms and tools (J++ and C++ on Windows and then J2EE on Solaris).

3. first met English in fourth grade (like most other Israeli kids at that time) - by the eighth grade I read my first real book - Shogun. I took me 3-4 month to get through the 1200 pages of the book, but I've been reading English since. In fact I hardly read Hebrew anymore.

4. I learned to program on the ZX81 - I remember the joy the first time I fully used the 1K memory it had, as well as the disappointment the followed thereafter when the instructor tried to add the 16K expansion which caused the machine to reboot.

5. I used to be a hobbyist bar tender. I still have more than 70 different bottles at home, with everything from Grenadine to a 25 years old Glenmorangie. I don't mix too many drinks these days, I mostly drink the Macallan.

I don't want to stay "it" for too long :), so on to tagging some other folks: Ohad Israeli, Andrew Johnston, Tad Anderson, Nancy Folsom and Ruth Malan. You are all it