It all started with my uncle. He owned a Commodore, so almost every day I went there to play some games. One day my father came home with an XT. So then I could mess around on my own. But I still didn't know that much about computers. Then one computer followed the other, and I wanted to make games of my own (haven't we all started like this?). So I started to read a book about GW-BASIC. I was about 14 years old. Then I learned Quick-basic. But this language had to many limits, so I started to learn C, then C++. I wrote a lot of small games, but the ideas in my head where from a size of Westwood-Blizzard. So together with my cousin Erik we formed a game developing team: ThunderCousins. We started to write a game called Deep, but as you might guess we never finished it. I still have a floppy that contains the last version of it. But now I am older, wiser, more experienced in programming techniques, and my knowledge has extended. I have learned Java, Java-script (a bit), HTML, Perl, assembly, Fortran,... . But I still don't know as much as I want to.

I started using Linux in 1998. And now I only use Linux! I think that if someone uses Linux for 3 months or so, he will never go back to Windows. Why? Try it yourself and find out!

At this moment the Tracker Dogs are taking up a lot of my time. I am also interested in Artificial Life, and have already build up many ideas, but the time to implement it isn't there. As you can see, computers have always been a big part of my life, and I think that it will never change.

• Drawing (yep, the dogs on top of the page are made by me): I like manga/anime drawn figures. I also like the paintings of Picasso, especially the ones of his cubistic period.
• Music (playing and listening): And the kind of music that I like? Rock and Alternative music: Zita Swoon, Das Pop, Dead Man Ray, Soulwax, De Mens, dEUS, Noordkaap, Gorki, Eels, Cake, PJ Harvey, Nirvana, Prodigy, Daft Punk, Rammstein, Beck, Morphine, The Doors, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Sepultura,... .
• Shooting: Some people see this as an agressive sport, but they have obviously never been at a shooting range. And let me remind you that the laws in Belgium are diffrent from the US. If shooting will become prohibited because some criminals use (illegal!) guns, then baseball should be prohibited too, because baseball bats are sometimes used to beat up people.
• Movies: When I was little I liked action movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stalone and Bruce Lee. But now I grew out of them. The movies that are now on top of my list: Star Wars triology, Das Experiment, The Shawshank Redemption, Twelve Monkeys, Shrek, The last of the Mohicans, Event Horizon, Thunderheart, Le Huitieme Jour, Dances with wolves, Arlington Road, ... .
• Going out, having fun, enjoying life!