Well, the ‘5 things about me tagging game’ has finally caught with me, thanks Darryl.  I did miss your link though as I’ve been spending a lot of time lately getting Vista working sweetly, working on a couple of web sites and preparing a presso for the local .Net User Group - which conveniently gave me plenty of time to think about the 5 things – just in case I got asked.  So here goes.

1. I lived in Sydney for a while in my youth and drove a cab for a year.  Famous fare’s included Tim Finn, Barry Humphries (thankfully not in costume) and Yana Vent (spelling?) (but you have to be Australian to know her).  Other interesting jobs include TV Aerial Installer, Bakers Assistant, Storeman, Egg Collector, Night Porter, Barman, Bouncer, Telephone ‘Operator’.
2. I live about ½ an hour out of Christchurch and have a lifestyle block with 500 or so olive trees, 3 kids, 8 chickens and 2 cats.  Oh, and a wife :]
3. I seem to get sucked (?) into starting user groups and community ‘things’.  I started the Christchurch Clipper User Group back in the early 90’s and I STILL think Clipper is a great development language.
4.  Most exotic(?) place I’ve been to would be Brunei.  My most favorite city?  Have to be Florence.  I spent a few days there about 18 years ago.  Definitely want to go back and see more of Italy.  Scariest place I’ve been? Johannessburg at night.
5.  I hated school.  I’ve never attended university and didn’t get UI either.  Consequentially, my kids get off too easy from homework.

I’ll need to do some research to see who hasn’t been tagged yet.  I’ll update this post later.