About me
As you have probably guessed by now, my name is Hans. I was born on 22nd of October, a fine autumn day in the great year 1981. If your memory doesn't contain any clues about what happened in that year, read the following list for a brief overview:
- Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter and becomes the 40th President of the United States.
- Bucks Fizz wins the Eurovision song contest with the song Making your mind up.
- Space shuttle Columbia launches into space for mission STS-1.
- Bob Marley dies.
- Pope John Paul II is shot (but survives) by a Turkish gunman.
- François Mitterand becomes the new president of France.
- The first recognized cases of AIDS are reported.
- MTV is launched.
- The original Model 5150 IBM PC with an Intel 8088 processor is released in the US.
- TGV high speed rail service between Paris and Lyon (France) begins.
I live in Belgium which is a pretty small country in Western Europe. If you're trying to find it on a map, it's surrounded by The Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east and France to the south. Even though it's a small country we do have 3 official languages (Dutch, French and German) and my native language is Dutch.
I'm currently employed as a software developer. My experience is 6 years of development on the LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). System administration remains an area of great interest for me and I wouldn't say no to a career in that direction if the positions of the stars are favourable.
Speaking of interests... I have quite a few more: football (the real stuff 
, formula 1, astronomy, Star Trek and music are the most important ones. I can also appreciate a good discussion about nearly any subject.
If you would like to contact me, please send an email to: hans <dotty> melis <atty> gmail <dotty> com. Replace <dotty> with . and <atty> with @ and remove spaces 