- Passions:
I know it’s stating the bleedin’ obvious, but I’m at my best when I’m passionate about something (even I fail to recognise that with myself!). My first passion was swimming, leading to a number of international competitions. I topped at the age of 18 and I’m still proud of my 10th place at the European Junior Championships in 1991. Once I got injured, I never came back, believing that my body just wasn’t made for the real top (Still believe I was right about that: hands and feet too small!).
Another passion is music, more specifically jazz! I adore some of the cross over styles with what people generally refer to as World Music. Examples: Toots Thielemans Brasil project, John Coltrane, Avishai Cohen, … And I can’t get enough of the classics (once in a while you can see me singing along in my car to the podcasts of Le Grand Jazz). I’ve always regretted that I can’t play any instrument. My vocal chords just aren’t a beautiful instrument
Photography is another passion of mine. I used to shoot it with my dad’s camera, and only started again once I could afford my own camera. I’d lost track of how much I loved this, but the passion soon returned. I’m slowly building up a Portfolio: You’ll see that I’m trying to combine my passions
- So what about the “plαdys” title of the blog?: it was my nickname assigned by a fellow irc bird on #brugge. I used to be on the chat all day. I first started IRC back in ’93 at university. We were all working on the little Mac’s, but our connections were made from a unix box we connected to through a terminal. The α was chosen by me to make it a bit more unique in these days of SEO, and also to avoid people to find me while searching information on fish.
- 10: I have always been a very yes-no, right-wrong, left-right type of guy. It helped me to create order in my world. People who didn’t fit in that pattern were just difficult to me. In that sense, you could call me quite digital. I have, with help from friends (and ART), learnt to appreciate grey.
If you catch me on a bad day, you’ll see me revert to my very digital yes-no, black or white behaviour. This might explain some of the comments I make on FB or Twitter. - Disclaimer: this blog is personal and thoughts and opinions expressed do not represent my employer’s (Oracle at time of writing 8/2010).
- Me on twitter…
- …and on last.fm
