About the author

Computers are fascinating

Having just turned fifty, I didn't grow up with the daily use of computers. There always was an interest though, whenever there would be an article in the paper about computers, I would devour it. Sheer magic to me!

Being an IT professional

I started my professional life in a rather boring office job. When a position opened up in the computer department of the company I worked for, I didn't have to think twice and applied for the job and was hired. That is over 25 years ago and I never left the IT business since.

Initially I loaded boxes of punch cards into a card reader machine, put paper into giant printers and mounted heavy disk packs on devices the size of washing machines. A disk like that could hold no less than 100 MB of data! You probably have 20 times as much memory on your usb-stick today.

As you all know, stepping from those days into 'the here and now', is a giant leap. After my days as a computer operator, I programmed in COBOL for many, many years. Right now I program in Oracle, something completely different.

Work becomes a hobby!

 When you are a programming freak like I am, I have to admit, you simply continue at home. 

Seven years ago I discovered the programming tool Delphi. One of my first projects was to write a slide show program after I had purchased my first digital camera. It did get a little out of hand since this program is still further developed (www.picturego.nl).

The solution I finally thought of resulted in PictureRetitle. First of all I use the program myself. The 20,000 pictures I renamed since then, only took a fraction of the time compared to renaming the first 5,000 the old fashioned way.

And what else?

I am married to a lovely American woman who always proof reads my English writing, which is most helpful. I also have two grown up sons and a very naughty cat. You can read about the cats' adventures on her blog: Kats-In-Klompen.

I love to watch soccer (my active days as a soccer player are behind me) and I sincerely hope the Dutch soccer team will be world champion one day. Then I can finally leave the traumas of 1974 and 1978 (when they lost in the final) behind me.;) Who knows, maybe in 2010??

Enjoy PictureRetitle!