Okay, what can I say about my self? Let's answer with a list: 100 things about Andi

1. My name is Andreas¹⁾ but I like to be called Andi
2. I'm 29 years old
3. I wrote a DokuWiki extension to make sure the previous fact is always correct
4. I've been born and live in Berlin, Germany
5. I studied applied computer science
6. I work as a system administrator/ programmer
7. I drink a lot of coffee
8. I don't like sports
9. I prefer T-Shirts and hate suits
10. My first computer was my father's 286 CPU; 40MB HDD; 4 MB
11. I'm only good at things I enjoy (or maybe the other way round)
12. I have no drivers license
13. I'm not a vegetarian
14. I get a few hundred emails per month (excluding spam) but only answer a few dozen
15. I own about 350 books but have read much more
16. I usually have a few coding project ideas in my mind but can't find the time to start on them
17. When I finally start, I usually finish the first working prototype after a weekend of mad coding
18. I'm not a business person
19. I'm not a public talker
20. I can't believe how hard it is to make a 100 item list about myself
21. I love to take photographs but am not keen to be photographed
22. I like cataloging things, but are a very disorderly person
23. I'm an information junkie (currently about 100 feeds in my feedreader)
24. I'm an Atheist (but if I'd need to pick a religion I'd go for Pastafarian)
25. My eyes went worse in the last years and I need to wear glasses now
26. Most people don't like most of the music I like
27. I consider stock trading as gambling but sometimes wonder if I should invest
28. I'm often impatient with others
29. I had several pets in my youth: birds, mice, rats, a hamster and a rabbit
30. Sometimes I think my acrophobia gets worse the older I become, but I usually just ignore it
31. I didn't went to the army but served in alternative service
32. My sports teacher once told me that I will not reach the age of 45
33. I always wanted a robot but still don't have one
34. I'd love to see the earth from space one day, but doubt it
35. I question things people tell me until I read them somewhere my self
36. I often wrongly assume people must know of something when I've heard of it at least twice
37. I prefer Intel CPUs over AMD ones for no apparent reason
38. When I was young I was very interested in astronomy but have forgotten most of it now
39. I collected empty beer cans once but stopped at about 250 pieces
40. I coded in Basic, Turbo Pascal, Bash, Java, C, C++, C#, Delphi, Perl, PHP and JavaScript so far, but I'd like to add Ruby one day
41. I prefer Scotch over Irish Whiskey
42. I don't care for soccer but enjoy snooker in the TV
43. My favourite webcomics are MegaTokyo, Dilbert, User Friendly, John and John²⁾ and XKCD
44. A few people think I share some characteristics with Gromit
45. My favourite colour is black and if you say that's not a color, I compromise on blue
46. I can't decide between British and American spelling
47. My name is worth 6583 Ego Points ³⁾
48. I'm right handed
49. My idea of being famous is to be asked for an interview on Slashdot
50. I love silly personality tests on the net
51. I often suffer from the Not Invented Here syndrome
52. Pirates are way cooler than ninjas in my opinion
53. My favourite desktop environment is XFCE
54. AFAIR I went online 1996, mailboxes first⁴⁾, the Internet came 1997
55. I like silly cartoons like Sponge Bob, the stranger the better
56. I like traveling
57. I'm a geocacher
58. According to the Discordian Calendar I was born on Sweetmorn, the 59th day of the Aftermath in the YOLD 3174
59. to be continued…