I was just invited to join a Virtual Cocktail Party, as Jeff Pulver puts it. Through a number of referrals, I eventually got my invitation from my former META Group colleague Dave Yockelson. (Thanks, Dave, glad to have you back in the analyst rounds.) The idea of blog-tagging is, to ask 5 bloggers to tell 5 things that most people wouldn’t know. Kinda like the (sometimes rather embarrassing) opening line at this cocktail party where everybody stands around with a Martini and nobody knows each other.

So here are some not so well known facts about me:

1. I can probably be considered Germany’s first hacker when I broke the IBM 5100 security (1978).
2. Playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, KV 488, marks the height of my piano career.
3. On an American Airlines flight to Chicago, I once sat next to Dustin Hoffman (in coach).
4. I turned down a job at Netscape, because I thought browsers were silly stuff.
5. On average, I fly more miles in a week than I drive my car in a year.

So there you go. I’m sure those facts will eventually be used against me. And now for the tagging of others… TAG! You’re it now…

• Frank Buytendijk
• Andy Hayler
• Michael Arrington
• Thomas Hawk
• Scott Adams